Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
In 1963, when I assigned the name 'quark' to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been 'kwork.'
Light and matter are both single entities, and the apparent duality arises in the limitations of our language.
