“Certain universals of grammar are demonstrable from a consideration of the order of meaningful elements.”— Joseph Greenberg
“All languages have pronominal categories involving at least three persons and two numbers.”— Joseph Greenberg
“Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.”— David Hilbert
“If a language has dominant VSO order, then the genitive always follows the governing noun.”— Joseph Greenberg
“Music is a language, a universal language. It's not English, it's not German, it's not French.”— Anthony Burgess