Human society Quote by John Maynard Smith Download Open image “You couldn't have human society without language.” — John Maynard Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human society Humans Language Nature of man
Without language we would have no reason, without reason no religion, and without these three essential aspects of our nature, neither mind nor bond… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words? — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Language is mankind’s greatest invention – except, of course, that it was never invented. — Guy Deutscher Copy Share Image
Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Language has multiple uses, and is embedded in different forms of life. It is not necessary to have this grand concept of "humanity" in… — Talal Asad Copy Share Image
Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I did not experience language deprivation. I did have access to language and communication, ever since I was a little kid. — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by. — Chogyam Trungpa 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
I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is… — Dominic Monaghan Copy Share Image
Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people. — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
It crosses my mind that our generation may leave problems that are simply too hard for human society in the generations that follow. The… — Ross Garnaut Copy Share Image
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can… — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance… — Raymond B. Fosdick Copy Share Image
Human society is not a machine, and it must not be made such, even in the economic field.... Access to employment [shall not be]… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in… — John Adams Copy Share Image
History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex. — Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges Copy Share Image
There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The drive to be useful is encoded in our genes. But when we gather in very large numbers, as in the modern nation-state, we… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I am a stronger follower of Veganism by principle, not just because of moral and aesthetic reasons. I truly believe in a Vegetarian lifestyle… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles. — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
