Analogue Quote by Noam Chomsky

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

Human language is mythological and metaphorical by nature.

— W. H. Auden

It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that…

— Noam Chomsky

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something…

— Jay Griffiths

I never thought of that one, that linguistics could be driving cultural things. There are some thoughts that that does happen in humans, that…

— Hal Whitehead

We are a unique ape. We have language. Other animals have systems of communication that fall far short of that. They don't have the…

— Richard Dawkins

Human language is open extendable and modifiable whereas animal language is not.

— RMKATTA

I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That…

— Jeff Stilson

I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet.That may…

— Jeff Stilson

“The calls of birds and the traces left by wolves to mark off their territories are no less forms of language than the sings…

— John Gray

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

— Malcolm De Chazal

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas