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Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface (Steven Pinker Quotes)
As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores (Steven Pinker Quotes)
According to a recent study of the brains of identical and fraternal twins, differences in the amount of gray matter in the frontal lobes are not only genetically influenced but are significantly correlated with differences in intelligence (Steven Pinker Quotes)
As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender (Steven Pinker Quotes)
Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act (Steven Pinker Quotes)
The likelihood that inborn differences are one contributor to social status does not mean that it is the only contributor (Steven Pinker Quotes)
The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history (Steven Pinker Quotes)
An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and competence of believers, while being vague or conspiratorial enough to withstand skeptical scrutiny (Steven Pinker Quotes)
Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men (Steven Pinker Quotes)
Being smarter gives you a tailwind throughout life. People who are more intelligent earn more, live longer, get divorced less, are less likely to get addicted to alcohol and tobacco, and their children live longer (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)
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture (Steven Pinker Quotes)
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor (Steven Pinker Quotes)
My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries (Steven Pinker Quotes)
Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate (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 great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero (Steven Pinker Quotes)
There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization (Steven Pinker Quotes)
Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection? (Steven Pinker Quotes)
I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game (Steven Pinker Quotes)
I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift (Steven Pinker Quotes)
I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture (Steven Pinker Quotes)
In any dispute, each side thinks it’s in the right and the other side is demons (Steven Pinker Quotes)
In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them (Steven Pinker Quotes)
With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution (Steven Pinker Quotes)
The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child’s peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration (Steven Pinker Quotes)
All of the violence that doesn’t occur doesn’t get reported on the news (Steven Pinker Quotes)
All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on (Steven Pinker Quotes)
As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world’s ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide (Steven Pinker Quotes)
Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with (Steven Pinker Quotes)