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Ideas 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…
- It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig…
- 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…
- If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.
- I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism…
- In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of…
- Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is…
- The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not…
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- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong