Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics."
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Galileo Galilei
Astronomer, Physicist
"To understand the Universe, you must understand the language in which it's written, the language of Mathematics."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other."
Franz Kafka
Writer
"All language is but a poor translation."
Meister Eckhart
Theologian, Philosopher
"Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language."
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"The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak."
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"Women speak two languages - one of which is verbal."
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"Life, religion and art all converge in Bali. They have no word in their language for 'artist' or 'art.' Everyone is an artist."
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"We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom."
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"Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four."
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"Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language."
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"The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!"
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"Finality is not the language of politics."
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"Accounting is the language of business."
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"Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication."
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"Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language."
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"There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language"
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"Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak."
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"The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE"
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"One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language, cutanddry grammar and goahead plot."
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"The eyes have one language everywhere."
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"Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias."
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"It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted."
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"In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE."
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"I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!"
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