There is no truth without responsibility following in its wake.

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.

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

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