Brain Quote by Leonard Shlain

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each…

— Terence McKenna

If (early humans) weren't using and refining language I would like to know what they were doing with their autocatalytically increasing brains.

— Dean Falk

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

In our evolution language has been the greatest single contribution to our understanding and misunderstanding

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

I don't think language could have evolved if it was the only distinctive trait. It goes hand in hand with our ability to develop…

— Steven Pinker

You can imagine a different world in which a number of species developed with different genetically determined linguistic systems. It hasn't happened in evolution.…

— Noam Chomsky

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in…

— Adrienne Rich

If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans…

— Temple Grandin

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is…

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

The thinking is that we started evolving language not by speaking but by gesturing.

— Frans de Waal

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

“language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can cause Alienation.”

— Fereidoon Yazdi