Erez Lieberman Aiden quotes
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“The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.”
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“Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.”
-- Erez Lieberman AidenSource : "What we learned from 5 million books". TEDxBoston Talk, www.ted.com. July 2011.
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“It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.”
-- Erez Lieberman AidenSource : "World’s most wired Biophysicist". www.wired.com. August 20, 2012.
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“I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.”
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“Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.”
Source : Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Bissell Carroll (1964). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.61, MIT Press
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Source : Edward Sapir, Pierre Swiggers (2008). “General Linguistics”, p.268, Walter de Gruyter
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“Never impose your language on people you wish to reach.”
Source : Abbie Hoffman (1968). “Revolution for the hell of it”
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