Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Attributed to Kenneth Boulding in Hans Adriaansens (1980) Talcott Parsons and the Conceptual Dilemma. p. 10
1980s
“Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be the criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.”
Physics and Philosophy (1958)
Context: The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments. But he has to speak about his results also to non-physicists who will not be satisfied unless some explanation is given in plain language. Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be the criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.
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“The inherent contradiction of human life has now reached an extreme degree of tension”
Leo Tolstoy A Letter to a Hindu
Source: A Letter to a Hindu (1908), VI
Context: The inherent contradiction of human life has now reached an extreme degree of tension: on the one side there is the consciousness of the beneficence of the law of love, and on the other the existing order of life which has for centuries occasioned an empty, anxious, restless, and troubled mode of life, conflicting as it does with the law of love and built on the use of violence. This contradiction must be faced, and the solution will evidently not be favourable to the outlived law of violence, but to the truth which has dwelt in the hearts of men from remote antiquity: the truth that the law of love is in accord with the nature of man. But men can only recognize this truth to its full extent when they have completely freed themselves from all religious and scientific superstitions and from all the consequent misrepresentations and sophistical distortions by which its recognition has been hindered for centuries.
“No word in our language — not even "Socialism"— has been employed more loosely than "Mysticism."”
William Ralph Inge (1860–1954) Dean of St Pauls
Christian Mysticism (1899) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14596, Preface <br class="br">Context: No word in our language — not even "Socialism"— has been employed more loosely than "Mysticism." … The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut…
Michael Halliday (1925–2018) Australian linguist
Source: 1950s–1960s, The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching, 1964, p. 13. cited in: David Brazil (1995) A Grammar of Speech. p. 9.
“The 'language theory' is inadequate as a description of the nature of mathematics.”
George Frederick James Temple (1901–1992) British mathematician
100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)
“It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.”
Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See
Source: All the Light We Cannot See