All Steven Pinker Quotes
- Personality and socialization aren't the same thing. Funny
- Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point. From
- Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology. Any
- I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties. Auditory
- I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture. Culture
- In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons. Any
- In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them. Acknowledging
- Societies that empower women are less violent in every way. Empower
- With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution. Concern
- Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual… Appeals
- For all the tribulations in our lives, for all the troubles that remain in the world, the decline of violence is an accomplishment that we… Accomplishment
- 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… Achievement
- All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news. All
- All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on. Activity
- 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. Definable
- As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. Claim
- But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo. Cases
- By all measures men are the more violent gender. All
- 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… Anarchy
- Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology. Biology