Quotes of: Kant Keyword

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

Ferdinand de Saussure

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.

Ferdinand de Saussure

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

Clifford Geertz

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

Clifford Geertz

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain.

Clifford Geertz

The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

C. V. Raman

In every island of the Aegean Sea are found abundant traces of a vast prehistoric empire.

James Theodore Bent

Maybe it's whiner's fatigue, but I'm getting tired of hearing about how hard it is to start a company and be a CEO. It's not that hard.

David Ulevitch

We can track and see the production of single molecules, trace them and see how they assemble into structures.

Eric Betzig

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

Eric Allin Cornell

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

Edward T. Hall

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

Bill Wyman

The process of radiation may be, and is, continuous - at any rate within limits extending to far smaller quantities than the quantum.

Charles Glover Barkla

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

John Polkinghorne

This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack.

Joseph Rotblat

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

Jack Steinberger

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

John Tyndall

The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.

David Deutsch

I feel more comfortable with gorillas than people. I can anticipate what a gorilla's going to do, and they're purely motivated.

Dian Fossey

I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.

David Gross

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

David Graeber