Humans Quote by Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.

— Benjamin Lee Whorf

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

— Noam Chomsky

The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical…

— Albert Einstein

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

One’s visual language is not something that manifests overnight. It develops organically over a life-time. The shifts can be so subtle as to be…

— Dan Winters

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human…

— Noam Chomsky

I never thought of that one, that linguistics could be driving cultural things. There are some thoughts that that does happen in humans, that…

— Hal Whitehead

Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have…

— Steven Pinker

“Linguists have long debated the links between language, culture, and cognition. The theory of linguistic relativity posits that language itself—the specific tongue that we…

— Emily Anthes

Language is a form of organized stutter.

— Marshall McLuhan

Language etches the grooves through which your thoughts must flow.

— Noam Chomsky