Vladimiro Sousa

“Complex organs evolve by small steps for the same reason that a watchmaker does not use a sledgehammer and a surgeon does not use a meat cleaver.”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“Knowing a language, then, is knowing how to translate mentalese into strings of words and vice versa. People without a language would still have mentalese, and babies and many nonhuman animals presumably have simpler dialects. Indeed, if babies did not have a mentalese to translate to and from English, it is not clear how learning English could take place, or even what learning English would mean.”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

“Evil exists only when its known. Adam and Eve were public in their fall. To sin in private is not to sin at all”
― Molière, Tartuffe

“man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.)”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language