A Quote by Steven Pinker

Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally quickly. So no particular language is in the genes. But what might be in the genes is the ability to acquire language.

Steven Pinker

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Steven Pinker
Canadian - Scientist
Born: September 18, 1954

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Sri Chinmoy

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Charles Simonyi

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Sam Shepard

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Gaston Bachelard

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Tomoki Kameda

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Paulo Freire

A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the mystic who tries to speak logically and formally of unity consciousness is doomed to sound very paradoxical or contradictory. The problem is that the structure of any language cannot grasp the nature of unity consciousness, any more than a fork could grasp the ocean.

Ken Wilber

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