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Possibility Quotes by Steven Pinker
- The elevation of parochial values to the realm of the sacred is a license to dismiss other people's interests, and an imperative to reject the…
- 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…
- But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.
- I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed…
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- The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;… — Samuel Johnson
- On the afternoon of October 19, 1899, I climbed a tall cherry tree and, armed with a saw which I still have,… — Dr Robert H Goddard
- The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet
- Aging is not 'lost youth,' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. It's a different stage of life, and if you… — Betty Friedan
- Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
- That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian… — Mahatma Gandhi
- Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved… — Nikola Tesla