Achievement Quote by B. F. Skinner

The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

— John Philip Sousa

“the slight evolutionary change that pushed man’s larynx deeper into his throat, and thus made choking a possibility, also brought with it the possibility…

— Bill Bryson

Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you…

— Tom Wolfe

The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors'…

— Roger Fouts

You are born with a sound; everyone is, less or more. And this sound has to be developed. I am not talking about vocal…

— Montserrat Caballe

Whenever you're in a natural system and you're making sound, you are putting yourself at risk. As you go up the evolutionary ladder, from…

— Gordon Hempton

The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.

— Willa Cather

While it's a fact that a voice begins with natural talent, any talent must be nurtured, cajoled, wrestled with pampered, challenged, and, at every…

— Renee Fleming

It takes a big voice a long time to develop properly; the bigger it is, the harder it is to develop the technique.

— Richard Bonynge

It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination....Of what use are speech sounds and tools without…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which…

— Roman Jakobson

It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of…

— Seth Shostak