Kenneth L. Pike

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.