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Years 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…
- In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example, Saudi Arabia convicted…
- 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…
- I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.
- I think that communism was a major force for violence for more than 100 years, because it was built into its ideology - that progress…
- I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that…
- Solving a problem in a hundred years is, practically speaking, the same as not solving it at all.
- The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.
- You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools for our convenience tens of thousands of…
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- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz