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- Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world. — Noam Chomsky
- The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary,… — Thomas Paine
- I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation… — Martin Chemnitz
- There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of… — Noam Chomsky
- Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information. — Thomas Paine
- An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an… — Niels Kaj Jerne
- The Creation speaks a universal language, independent of human speech or human language, multiplied and various as they be. It is an… — Thomas Paine
- There is a language beyond human language, an elemental language, one that arises from the land itself. — Linda Hogan
- Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is… — Robert Bringhurst
- A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking. — Seymour Papert
- In my games I have sometimes found a combination intuitively simply feeling that it must be there. Yet I was not able… — Mikhail Tal
- The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of… — David Abram