Daniel Everett Quotes
- As a scientist, objectivity is one of my most deeply held values. If we could just try harder, I once thought, surely we could each…
- I've learned so much from the Pirahas over the years. But this is perhaps my favorite lesson. Sure, life is hard and there is plenty…
- I went from being a Christian missionary to an atheist.
- I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to…
- Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to…
- Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in…
- I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the…