Quote by David Foster Wallace

“Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.”

— William Boyd

“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.”

— Timothy Gowers

“Ease of learning isn’t the primary force in language evolution.”

— Ted Chiang

“But due to some strange lack of neural coordination between the faculties of thinking and speaking, or perhaps to the crucial lifeline that lucidity…

— María Dueñas

“We were never born to read. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we rearranged the very…

— Grabe

“The more parents talk to their children, even in the earliest moments of life, the better their kids’ linguistic abilities become”

— John Medina

When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The…

— Steven Pinker

“Science gropes and staggers toward improved understanding.”

— Carl Sagan

“Then again, it'd taken more than two hundred years after the invention of the scientific method before any Muggle scientists had thought to systematically…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

At one year of age the child says his first intentional wordhis babbling has a purpose, and this intention is a proof of conscious…

— Maria Montessori

It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar,…

— Niels Kaj Jerne

“..people who stutter may be of above intellect but have trouble putting the many ideas they have into words in an easily understood order…

— Bill Allin