From Chomsky's remarks in The New York Times today —
"It is at once comic and tragic, as Borges might have noted,
that so much money and attention should be concentrated
on so little a thing — something so trivial when contrasted
with the human mind, which by dint of language, in the
words of Wilhelm von Humboldt, can make 'infinite use of
finite means,' creating ideas and theories with universal reach."
A search in this journal for Humboldt University yields . . .
"Cum grano salis" — Boris Karloff in "The Black Cat."
