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So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#any #believing #christianity #could #creator

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#behavior #control #controls #culture #extent

The detached observer's view is one window on the world. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#observer #view #window #world

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. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#even #find #intelligible #linguistics #marvelous

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#complex #extends #man #mind #more

The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#eyes #local #native #participant #scene

This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#application #belief #development #fact #integrate

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

— Kenneth L. Pike

#form #more #often #practicality #than

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

— Kenneth L. Pike

#created #methodology #nonverbal #organized #should

With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#coherence #disciplines #easily #facts #grant