Language Quote by John Maynard Smith Download Open image “Language changes very fast.” — John Maynard Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language
Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly. — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Change in language is hard to capture and when it's visible or audible; it is also hard for some to accept. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose… — Rosalie Maggio Copy Share Image
A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in change and embrace the fact that English is probably the fastest-moving language in the world. — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Language changes the flavour of the people, it changes the way you tell a story. — Shriya Saran Copy Share Image
Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really… — Erik Qualman Copy Share Image
Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture. — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly… — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
It is an occupational risk of biologists to claim, towards the end of their careers, that the problems which they have not solved are… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
As an evolutionary biologist, I have learned over the years that most people do not want to see themselves as lumbering robots programmed to… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism.... It does not follow that,… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
So far, we have been able to study only one evolving system and we cannot wait for interstellar flight to provide us with a… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
The evolution of sex is the hardest problem in evolutionary biology. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled. — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
