Brain Quote by Dean Falk

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

— Leonard Shlain

I did not say that language as a completed system emerged in an individual in an instant. But I cannot think of a coherent…

— Noam Chomsky

As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago. That circuit…

— Maryanne Wolf

Today, there are over 7,000 languages spoken throughout the world. They may sound different, but in every case, they're drawing on the same regions…

— David Pogue

There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably enhanced, one…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Terence McKenna

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The…

— Jamais Cascio

“The second cognitive revolution, dreamed up by techno-humanists, might do the same to us, producing human cogs who communicate and process data far more…

— Yuval Noah Harari

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance,…

— Chris Gardner

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has…

— Terence McKenna

“The reason creatures wanted to use language instead of mental telepathy was that they found out they could get so much more done with…

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

— Daniel H. Pink