Block Quote by Daniel Everett

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if…

— C. S. Lewis

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use…

— Blake Butler

If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans…

— Temple Grandin

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

— Terence McKenna

Language is basic to all of our existences in this world. We depend on it.

— Garry Winogrand

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

While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or evolution.

— Noam Chomsky

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind,…

— Oliver Sacks

Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do…

— Daniel Everett

The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my…

— Michael J. Knowles

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