Language and the sciences: how language lends its wisdom for all fields of knowledge.

If one thinks a good deal for oneself, one finds a good deal of wisdom contained in language. It is very likely that one does not bring everything into language, but rather there is actually much wisdom within it, just as in proverbs and sayings.

One finds traces of all the sciences in languages, and conversely a good deal in languages that can be useful for the sciences.

 

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms

 

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