Way of life Quotes by Steven Pinker

Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much…

— Steven Pinker

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

— Steven Pinker

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by…

— Steven Pinker

I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless…

— Steven Pinker

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

— Steven Pinker

Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely…

— Steven Pinker

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives…

— Steven Pinker

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence,…

— Steven Pinker