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Cognitive Quotes by Steven Pinker
- In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award for…
- We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.
- Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or…
- 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…
- I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that…
- The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis.…
- Nature is a hanging judge," goes an old saying. Many tragedies come from our physical and cognitive makeup. Our bodies are extraordinarily improbable arrangements of…
More Cognitive Quotes
- Chess is a unique cognitive nexus, a place where art and science come together in the human mind and are then refined… — Garry Kasparov
- The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving… — Eric Jensen
- The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that… — William Allan
- An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an… — Niels Kaj Jerne
- Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon… — Will Eisner
- Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low… — Sidney Hook
- Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in… — Jill Bolte Taylor
- It is not quite right to describe One Taste as a "consciousness" or an "awareness," because that's a little too heady, too… — Ken Wilber