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Correcting his wife's language after she had caught him with a chambermaid:
Mrs Webster: Noah, I'm surprised.
Noah Webster: No, my dear. You are amazed. It is we who are surprised.


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There is no alternative. Every possible reason that could ever be offered for altering the spelling of words, still exists in full force; and if a gradual reform should not be made in our language, it will proof that we are less under the influence of reason than our ancestors.

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Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.

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Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Noah Webster

Noah Webster
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Born: October 16, 1758
Died: May 28, 1843 (aged 84)
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