For man is but the servant and interpreter of nature: what he does and what he knows is only what he has observed of nature's orde...r in fact or in thought; beyond this he knows nothing and can do nothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in ...the course of nature: beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That way of inspiration is always open,... and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past in to-day's imagery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,... is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combini...ng as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The jazz musician is denied the dignity accorded the composer because not everything he composes is first written down, or, necess...arily, written down afterward, or, once written down, considered immutable. And he is denied the dignity accorded the Serious-music performer because the latter is an "interpreter" of presumably great music. The musician, in other words, who makes up his music as he goes along, or makes up a good deal of it, or who rarely plays the same music twice in the same way, is, we are given to understand, inferior to the musician who makes no music of his own. For all his undisputed virtuosity and inventive fancy, the jazz musician cannot, we are led to believe, be granted equality with the Serious musician who can read and play the notes written down for him by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Wagner a century or so ago.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I perceived that to express those impressions, to write that essential book, which is the only true one, a great writer does not, ...in the current meaning of the word, invent it, but, since it exists already in each one of us, interprets it. The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides through an inte...rpreter, quite in the described mode,--the Indians, as usual, having the advantage in point of truth and earnestness, and therefore of eloquence. The most prominent chief was named Little Crow. They were quite dissatisfied with the white man's treatment of them, and probably have reason to be so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »