Quote by J.B.S. Haldane

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arou

Summary

This quote suggests that while words are effective in conveying descriptions and emotions, there are certain types of precise thinking that require alternative symbols or means of representation. It implies that words may be limited in their ability to capture complex ideas or concepts accurately. In such cases, utilizing different symbols or forms of expression can provide a more precise and comprehensive understanding of those thoughts.

Topics

By J.B.S. Haldane

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense o

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my l

Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my present life and then at my former life, and you will see that I do attempt to carry them out. It is true that I have not fulfilled one thousandth part of them [Christian precepts], and I am ashamed of this, but I have failed to fulfill them not because I did not wish to, but because I was unable to. Teach me how to escape from the net of temptations that surrounds me, help me and I will fulfill them; even without help I wish and hope to fulfill them.Attack me, I do this myself, but attack me rather than the path I follow and which I point out to anyone who asks me where I think it lies. If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you. Do not mislead me, do not be glad that I have got lost, do not shout out joyfully: Look at him! He said he was going home, but there he is crawling into a bog! No, do not gloat, but give me your help and support.

Hypocrisy Encouragement Accountability Testimony

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, e

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationsh

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

Want less, live more

Want less, live more

Benny Bellamacina

Life Philosophy Wisdom Inspirational

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only boo

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that other folks have lent me.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Emily Dickinson

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Alexander Herzen

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prep

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

if there is something more excellent than the truth, then th

if there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God

Saint Augustine

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son,

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.