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Many Quotes by Steven Pinker
- When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock. To…
- Modern biblical scholars have established that the bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different styles, dialects, character…
- In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example, Saudi Arabia convicted…
- Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as it is familiar,…
- My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.
- Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
- With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.
- As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
- A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a…
- Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare…
- But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.
- 'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated…
- 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…
- Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions…
- 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…
- 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…
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- You looked into my eyes and whispered that you wanted to be with me, all my heart wanted to do was say… — Superman
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all;… — Rajneesh
- Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all. — Swami Vivekananda
- Since the Kingstonfirst BID started in January 2005, retailers have enjoyed three years of impressive sales growth, which has taken many of… — Unknown Author
- There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are… — A. Bartlett Giamatti