Some of my favourite quotes
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“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”
George E. P. Box (1919–2013) -
“Intuitions have been tacitly granted a privileged position in generative grammar. The result has been the construction of elaborate theoretical edifices supported by disturbingly shaky empirical evidence.”
Wasow & Arnold (2004, p. 1482) -
“Being a native speaker doesn’t confer papal infallibility on one’s intuitive judgments.”
Raven McDavid (1985)