Reason Quotes by Steven Pinker

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either homicide or…

— Steven Pinker

As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the…

— Steven Pinker

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic…

— Steven Pinker

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

— Steven Pinker

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes…

— Steven Pinker

The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong…

— Steven Pinker

Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the…

— Steven Pinker

“What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the strivings of the human…

— Steven Pinker

Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs…

— Steven Pinker

The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And…

— Steven Pinker

We adults protect ourselves with laws, police, workplace regulations and social norms and there is no conceivable reason why children should be…

— Steven Pinker

The doctrine of the sacredness of the soul sounds vaguely uplifting, but in fact is highly malignant. It discounts life on earth…

— Steven Pinker

I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's…

— Steven Pinker

Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the…

— Steven Pinker

The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only…

— Steven Pinker

“Reason is up to these demands because it is an open-ended combinatorial system, an engine for generating an unlimited number of new…

— Steven Pinker

The Rights Revolutions too have given us ideals that educated people today take for granted but that are virtually unprecedented in human…

— Steven Pinker

“The media and intelligentsia were partly complicit in Trump's depiction of the world as a dystopia headed for even greater disaster. 'Charge…

— Steven Pinker