Conditions Quote by Noam Chomsky

Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that…

— Noam Chomsky

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration…

— William Irwin Thompson

“Language had arrived from outer space and mated together lizards and monkeys or whatever until it had customized a host which could sustain it.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

— Mason Cooley

There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably enhanced, one…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Frans de Waal

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

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

“Language is changing constantly; printing and modern education have slowed it but have not stopped it. Given all this change, when, exactly, was language…

— Robert Lane Greene

It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language?…

— Hanif Kureishi

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and…

— Joshua Foer

“The 20th century linguistic revolution is the recognition that language is not merely a device for communicating ideas about the world, but rather a…

— Oliver Benjamin