Ability Quote by Steven Pinker

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

— Lewis Thomas

Hands have their own language.

— Simon Van Booy

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

— Frans de Waal

“Although, deep down, I think I had known this all along. I was not aware of the mechanism, but I had always felt that…

— Paul J. Newell

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at…

— Roland Barthes

Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge…

— Oliver Sacks

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

— Harlan Lane

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

— Noam Chomsky

Language is handy, but we humans have social and emotional connections that transcend words and are communicated - and understood - without conscious thought.

— Leonard Mlodinow

Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

— Charles Darwin

I think we're still in a muddle with our language, because once you get words and a spoken language it gets harder to communicate.

— Jane Goodall