Biology Quote by 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

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

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 fact, it could be said that our language evolved for the express purpose of allowing us to participate in that interaction with others.…

— Larry Gottlieb

It's commonly assumed that the emergence of language was a key element of the great leap. We of course know very little about the…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

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

— Terence McKenna

All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved

— Casey Miller

It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways, too. For…

— Richard Leakey

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

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

— Gene Wolfe