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Number Quotes by Steven Pinker
- The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying…
- Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.
- '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…
- I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I…
- Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The…
- As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
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- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
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- I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing… — Neil Armstrong
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge,… — Charles Babbage