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.

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

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

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

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.

Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.