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Works Quotes by Steven Pinker
- The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs…
- 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…
- 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…
- Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual…
- I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated.
- Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?
More Works Quotes
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Hardware works best when it matters the least. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. — Saint Augustine
- The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
- What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they… — Teresa of Avila
- All of the problems we're facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It's called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works… — Michele Bachmann