Explain Quote by Steven Pinker Download Open image ““I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.”” — Steven Pinker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Explain Language Style Think
“I'm amazed with language, it's so complex, yet so simple...everything can be influenced by it, and everything can influence it.” — Kimberly Loskov Copy Share Image
“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“languages. Notice how they almost make sense, some of them.’ ‘Yes, and that’s” — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“Here I'd been thinking that just because someone spoke English we'd understand each other. But I guess there are languages within languages, and those… — Christopher Barzak Copy Share Image
“The thing about language is that once you start getting analytical about it, you can't stop.” — Greg Carlson Copy Share Image
“For most people, language is our primary interface with each other and with the external world.” — Erin Kissane Copy Share Image
“To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of… — S.I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“Not only does language reflect a person’s thinking, but it also reinforces a person’s thinking.” — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Consistent style prevents presentation from getting in the way of content. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power to shock.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The biblical story of the binding of Isaac shows that human sacrifice was far from unthinkable in the 1st millennium BCE. The Israelites boasted… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In fact, without a specification of a creature's goals, the very idea of intelligence is meaningless. A toadstool could be given a genius award… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“The obvious cure for the tragic shortcomings of human intuition in a high-tech world is education. And this offers priorities for educational policy: to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of… — David Lange Copy Share Image
How do you explain a person like Asha Bhosle? A star or a super star or just someone from the Gods. — Anu Malik Copy Share Image
There is an indefinable quality possessed by some artists. You simply can't explain it. — Vera-Ellen Copy Share Image
To be in a room and have to explain your point of view is a huge skill in Hollywood. — Stephanie Savage Copy Share Image
When I'm creating art or music, when something is resonating or a scene is going well, that almost feels religious to me... there's this… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
Old cookbooks connect you to your past and explain the history of the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every time someone tried to explain to me there are limits to what one man can do, I pointed to the boundless sky and… — Jaiprakash Gaur Copy Share Image
Street fights in Hawaii are so controlled you would think they were sanctioned. It's really hard to explain. It's almost like a peaceful violence. — Brad Tavares Copy Share Image
I don't believe in quotas for quotas sake, but I think companies without any women on their boards should write to their shareholders and… — Karren Brady Copy Share Image
People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's… — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike? — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
