Famous quotes containing the words languages and/or hypothesis:
“No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Oversimplified, Merciers Hypothesis would run like this: Wit is always absurd and true, humor absurd and untrue.”
—Vivian Mercier (b. 1919)