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Steven Pinker Quotes

Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology Picture Quote #1

Everyone’s pedigree merges into everyone else’s pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related Picture Quote #1

I don’t think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated Picture Quote #1

I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something Picture Quote #1

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life Picture Quote #1

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books Picture Quote #1

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If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate Picture Quote #1

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we’re exposed to an infectious world Picture Quote #1

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology Picture Quote #1

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself Picture Quote #1

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time Picture Quote #1

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world Picture Quote #1

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Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance Picture Quote #1

Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that’s going to expand Picture Quote #1

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with Picture Quote #1

The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn’t all that high Picture Quote #1

The brain is not a bag of traits. It’s startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind Picture Quote #1

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally Picture Quote #1

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Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries Picture Quote #1

We’re living in primate heaven. We’re warm, dry, we’re not hungry, we don’t have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable? Picture Quote #1

You wouldn’t believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs Picture Quote #1

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings Picture Quote #1

An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets Picture Quote #1

As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics Picture Quote #1

Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone’s home Picture Quote #1

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important Picture Quote #1

Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual Picture Quote #1

Look at almost any passage, and you’ll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It’s not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it’s just that that’s the way language works Picture Quote #1

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Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology (Steven Pinker Quotes) Everyone’s pedigree merges into everyone else’s pedigree. So if you go back far enough, everyone is related (Steven Pinker Quotes) I don’t think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated (Steven Pinker Quotes) I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something (Steven Pinker Quotes) I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life (Steven Pinker Quotes) I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books (Steven Pinker Quotes) If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate (Steven Pinker Quotes) Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we’re exposed to an infectious world (Steven Pinker Quotes) Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology (Steven Pinker Quotes) One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself (Steven Pinker Quotes) People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time (Steven Pinker Quotes) Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world (Steven Pinker Quotes) Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance (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) Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with (Steven Pinker Quotes) The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn’t all that high (Steven Pinker Quotes) The brain is not a bag of traits. It’s startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind (Steven Pinker Quotes) The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally (Steven Pinker Quotes) Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries (Steven Pinker Quotes) We’re living in primate heaven. We’re warm, dry, we’re not hungry, we don’t have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable? (Steven Pinker Quotes) You wouldn’t believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs (Steven Pinker Quotes) Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings (Steven Pinker Quotes) An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets (Steven Pinker Quotes) As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal (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) Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics (Steven Pinker Quotes) Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone’s home (Steven Pinker Quotes) If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or warfare or both. Anarchy is one of the main reasons for violence, and it may be the most important (Steven Pinker Quotes) Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual (Steven Pinker Quotes) Look at almost any passage, and you’ll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It’s not that the speaker is trying to be poetic, it’s just that that’s the way language works (Steven Pinker Quotes)

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