"Brent Berlin and Paul Kay in Basic Color Terms demonstrate exhaustively and empirically, the very simple thesis that anywhere in the world, as a language develops and acquires names for color, the colors always enter in the same order. The most primitive are black and white. Then red. Then either green or yellow."

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Alexander Theroux

#Black And White Quotes #Simple Quotes #Names Quotes

“Alas, the spheres of truth are less transparent than those of illusion.”
“When you can impress your mom by saying you've been to someone's concert, you know you're pretty lame.”
“As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet.”
“The digital image annihilates photography while solidifying, glorifying and immortalizing the photographic.”
“As long as I could remember, since I was 5 years old, I watched the Stanley Cup. I stayed up, made a point of watching it presented, watched the celebration in the locker room, and always dreamed that maybe I'd get there.”
“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over 4 billion years of biological evolution. Incidentally, all the organisms on the Earth are made essentially of that stuff. An eyedropper full of that liquid could be used to make a caterpillar or a petunia if only we knew how to put the components together.”
“The capacity to innovate - the ability to solve problems creatively or bring new possibilities to life - and skills like critical thinking, communication and collaboration are far more important than academic knowledge.”
“Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.”

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