Body language Quote by Paul J. Newell

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

— Frans de Waal

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and…

— John Ralston Saul

“Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a child then, so I had only an intuitive…

— Banana Yoshimoto

Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress…

— Steven Pinker

“It would seem that, through touch, through kissing, we might have gouged a worm-size channel through which crucial information could pass, sublingual messages, the…

— Ben Marcus

When we developed written language, we significantly increased our functional memory and our ability to share insights and knowledge across time and space. The…

— Jamais Cascio

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly…

— Casey Miller

“This is often the way one moves into the future. For what you begin to see, there is no ready language. If you were…

— Susan Griffin

Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

— Leonard Shlain

Language [can] be expressed . . . by movements of the hands and face just as well as by the small, sound-generating movements of…

— Harlan Lane

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook…

— Jon Stewart

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