Easier Quote by Daniel Dennett

To know the origin of words is to know the cultural history of mankind.

— Ernest Klein

One of the joys of language is its constant evolution, and a lexicographer's job is both to track new words and to reassess those…

— Susie Dent

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

— Joy Kogawa

Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes…

— Virgilia Peterson

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community…

— Noam Chomsky

I don't think language could have evolved if it was the only distinctive trait. It goes hand in hand with our ability to develop…

— Steven Pinker

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

— Anne Enright

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

— Frank Herbert

You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened in evolution.…

— Noam Chomsky

Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words…

— Joshua Foer

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that…

— Noam Chomsky