Wed 6 Oct 2010
What’s your sign?
Posted by PJ under language, quote of the day, science, words
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Random quote of the day:
“Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote.”
—Samuel Johnson, Preface to The Dictionary
Disclaimer:Â The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
