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Way Quotes by Steven Pinker
- Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you…
- Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies…
- 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…
- 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…
- Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying…
- Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
- Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away…
- If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.
- I think the reason that swearing is both so offensive and so attractive is that it is a way to push people's emotional buttons, and…
- Conventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to…
- 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…
- One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against…
- Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the…
- 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…
- The way to understand how different species evolved is to think about the niches that they fill in an ecosystem - basically, how they make…
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