Animals Quote by RMKATTA

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

— Noam Chomsky

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 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

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

If animals could talk, they would tell us that the human beings should be simply more simple and less complicated.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

“Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions--it is natural to conclude that animals…

— Linda Bender

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of…

— Gary Steiner

The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.

— Margaret Atwood

Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a…

— Richard Leakey

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

— Thomas Paine

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 animals and nonhuman animals can communicate quite well; if we are brought up around animals as children we take this for granted. By…

— Alice Walker