Business Quote by Ferdinand de Saussure

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other,…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Language is the archives of history.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Languages are true analytical methods.

— Antoine Lavoisier

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

— Thomas Jefferson

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress

— Anonymous

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

— Russell Hoban

For one thing, studying language is by itself a part of a study of human intelligence that is, perhaps, the central aspect of human…

— Noam Chomsky

“Standard languages are inventions, most of them confined to a recent period in human history. They are codes that give access not to clear…

— Robert Lane Greene

The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the…

— Joseph H. Greenberg

The task that we face today is to understand the language of nature.

— Paul Stamets

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain…

— Ferdinand de Saussure