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Some Quotes by Steven Pinker
- The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only means that people…
- People do not think in English or Chinese or Apache; they think in a language of thought. This language of thought probably looks a bit…
- Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're…
- You know that when Irving puts the dog in the car, it is no longer in the yard. When Edna goes to church, her head…
- In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white…
- 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…
- Some people believe that the nuclear bomb should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, since it scared the major powers away from war by equating…
- Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather…
- You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body…
- Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is…
- The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If…
- Some people think that evolutionary psychology claims to have discovered that human nature is selfish and wicked. But they are flattering the researchers and anyone…
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- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
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- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch