Aspect Quote by Noam Chomsky

Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

— Terence McKenna

“Linguists have long debated the links between language, culture, and cognition. The theory of linguistic relativity posits that language itself—the specific tongue that we…

— Emily Anthes

Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique…

— Daniel Everett

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human…

— Noam Chomsky

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

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience,…

— George Carlin

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical…

— Albert Einstein

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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