Big deal Quote by Terence McKenna

Even if language is a living evolving organism, we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is…

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

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

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

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

— Leonard Shlain

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

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

— Frans de Waal

“language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can cause Alienation.”

— Fereidoon Yazdi

“Ease of learning isn’t the primary force in language evolution.”

— Ted Chiang

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also…

— Gunter Grass

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community…

— Frank Smith

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

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

— Ludwig Wittgenstein