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Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn’t have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other. (Steven Pinker Quotes)
For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we can savor - and an impetus to cherish the forces of civilization and enlightenment that made it possible. (Steven Pinker Quotes)
I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress comes through class struggle, often violent. (Steven Pinker Quotes)
Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today’s Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972. (Steven Pinker Quotes)
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven’t given much thought to the connections. (Steven Pinker Quotes)
The decline of violence isn’t a steady inclined plane from an original state of maximal and universal bloodshed. Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with. (Steven Pinker Quotes)
As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we’re interested in what makes one person different from another. We’ve got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another. (Steven Pinker Quotes)
Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news ... Thanks to the mathematics of combinatorics, we will never run out of news. (Steven Pinker Quotes)
A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature. (Steven Pinker Quotes)
There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn’t completely clear; there are a number of possibilities. (Steven Pinker Quotes)
Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that’s going to expand. (Steven Pinker Quotes)
In a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology, probability and statistics - unfortunately most High School and College curricula have barely changed since Medieval times! (Steven Pinker Quotes)
I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed by our biology and history. When an author is free to suspend the constraints, it’s tennis without a net. (Steven Pinker Quotes)
We instinctively fear snakes, but we appear not to be afraid of fast cars, which are a real danger now. This suggests our emotions were shaped by our evolutionary environment not the one we grew up in. (Steven Pinker Quotes)
My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. (Steven Pinker Quotes)
I learned to focus my energy on high-quality, long-term projects rather than lower-quality projects with quicker payoffs. (Steven Pinker Quotes)
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 tools and technologies, and also with the fact that we cooperate with nonrelatives. (Steven Pinker Quotes)
You can’t hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain. (Steven Pinker Quotes)
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature (Steven Pinker Quotes)
Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players (Steven Pinker Quotes)
The world has far too much morality (Steven Pinker Quotes)
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics (Steven Pinker Quotes)
Heritability pertains to the entirety of the genome, not to a single gene (Steven Pinker Quotes)
The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer (Steven Pinker Quotes)
Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution (Steven Pinker Quotes)
Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies (Steven Pinker Quotes)
But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo (Steven Pinker Quotes)
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language (Steven Pinker Quotes)
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones (Steven Pinker Quotes)
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu (Steven Pinker Quotes)