“Good temper and moderation are the characteristics of parliamentary language.”

My desire to get here [Parliament] was like miners’coal dust, it was under my fingers and I couldn’t scrub it out.

You’ve got to ensure that the holders of an opinion, however unpopular, are allowed to put across their points of view.

Such indeed is the respect paid to science, that the most absurd opinions may become current, provided they are expressed in language, the sound of which recals [sic] some well-known scientific phrase.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation.

We can appreciate each other’s languages. And the question of being uncomfortable about our languages would go away.

You get another person who operates only in an African language and there are many persons who operate only in African languages; he or she is excluded from all the goodies that come with English.

Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film.

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

The same questions are there in Native American languages, they’re there in native Canadian languages, they’re there is some marginalized European languages, like say, Irish.

So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.