Acoustic Communication Quotes

I do this so you cannot help but hear. A wise man views a moonless night with fear.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.

I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest observations, the universal inclination of humankind is to be led by the ears, and I am sometimes apt to imagine that they are given to men as they are to pitchers, purposely that they may be carried about by them.

The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.

I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.