Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.Noam Chomsky
When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.Noam Chomsky
Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.Noam Chomsky
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.Noam Chomsky
Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.Noam Chomsky
It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.Richard Feynman
All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.Richard Feynman
There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn't look at all like the way you said it before. I don't know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.Richard Feynman
I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind - this attitude of uncertainty - is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.Richard Feynman
People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about one of the theories that we know pretty well. They always want to know things that we don't know.Richard Feynman
