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

A theory may be viewed rather broadly as a statement purporting to describe, or to explain, or to help one to understand a phenomenon. More narrowly, a theory may present a claim of truth, or assert the presence of relationships between phenomena, or predict the occurrence of phenomena.

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

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.

M-theory is the unified theory Einstein was hoping to find.

It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.