Way Quotes by Steven Pinker

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

— Steven Pinker

Consistent style prevents presentation from getting in the way of content.

— Steven Pinker

We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.

— Steven Pinker

If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.

— Steven Pinker

The way to understand how different species evolved is to think about the niches that they fill in an ecosystem - basically,…

— Steven Pinker

One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning…

— Steven Pinker

Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the…

— Steven Pinker

Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any…

— 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

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you…

— Steven Pinker

An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and…

— Steven Pinker

Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects…

— Steven Pinker

Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics…

— Steven Pinker

I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about…

— Steven Pinker

In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way…

— Steven Pinker

People do not think in English or Chinese or Apache; they think in a language of thought. This language of thought probably…

— 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

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

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

— Steven Pinker

Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily…

— Steven Pinker