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"Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such."
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"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."
"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes."
"Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them."
"A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."
"Theories crumble, but good observations never fade."
"I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have."
"If a philosophic theory is once ruled out of court, no one can tell when it will appear again."
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"Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective."
"This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge."
"Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions."
"If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience."
"We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?"
"I wanted a theory that would allow one to live outside the office with the same philosophy one uses inside it."
"So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me."
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