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Steven Pinker Quotes

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way Picture Quote #1

I don’t consider myself to be that radical a thinker Picture Quote #1

Personality and socialization aren’t the same thing Picture Quote #1

By all measures men are the more violent gender Picture Quote #1

Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business Picture Quote #1

We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade Picture Quote #1

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My laptop has freed me to travel Picture Quote #1

We can shape events in each other’s brains with exquisite precision Picture Quote #1

Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem Picture Quote #1

Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology Picture Quote #1

So no, it’s not all in the genes, but what isn’t in the genes isn’t in the family environment either. It can’t be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents Picture Quote #1

When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal Picture Quote #1

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Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control Picture Quote #1

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else’s thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person’s vantage point Picture Quote #1

Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy Picture Quote #1

As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty Picture Quote #1

Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along Picture Quote #1

People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely Picture Quote #1

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Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship Picture Quote #1

A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don’t have to become violent in self-defence Picture Quote #1

A word is an arbitrary label - that’s the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don’t snicker: Would you ever say, ‘Nothing has gone wrong yet’ without looking for wood to knock? Picture Quote #1

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, ‘No,’ because it’s an oblate spheroid. They suffer from ‘the curse of knowledge’: the inability to imagine what it’s like not to know something that they know Picture Quote #1

America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself Picture Quote #1

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can’t understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on Picture Quote #1

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Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist Picture Quote #1

Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats? Picture Quote #1

I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back Picture Quote #1

If crime is going down, you shouldn’t be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success Picture Quote #1

In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that ‘the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.’ Picture Quote #1

My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one’s convictions can be subjected to empirical test Picture Quote #1

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Societies that empower women are less violent in every way (Steven Pinker Quotes) I don’t consider myself to be that radical a thinker (Steven Pinker Quotes) Personality and socialization aren’t the same thing (Steven Pinker Quotes) By all measures men are the more violent gender (Steven Pinker Quotes) Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business (Steven Pinker Quotes) We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade (Steven Pinker Quotes) My laptop has freed me to travel (Steven Pinker Quotes) We can shape events in each other’s brains with exquisite precision (Steven Pinker Quotes) Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem (Steven Pinker Quotes) Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology (Steven Pinker Quotes) So no, it’s not all in the genes, but what isn’t in the genes isn’t in the family environment either. It can’t be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents (Steven Pinker Quotes) When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal (Steven Pinker Quotes) Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control (Steven Pinker Quotes) Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else’s thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person’s vantage point (Steven Pinker Quotes) Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy (Steven Pinker Quotes) As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty (Steven Pinker Quotes) Consciousness turns out to consist of a maelstrom of events distributed across the brain. These events compete for attention, and as one process outshouts the others, the brain rationalizes the outcome after the fact and concocts the impression that a single self was in charge all along (Steven Pinker Quotes) People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely (Steven Pinker Quotes) Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words might alter. So every sentence has to do two things at once: convey a message and continue to negotiate that relationship (Steven Pinker Quotes) A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don’t have to become violent in self-defence (Steven Pinker Quotes) A word is an arbitrary label - that’s the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a spell, incantation, curse, or prayer can change the world. Don’t snicker: Would you ever say, ‘Nothing has gone wrong yet’ without looking for wood to knock? (Steven Pinker Quotes) Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, ‘No,’ because it’s an oblate spheroid. They suffer from ‘the curse of knowledge’: the inability to imagine what it’s like not to know something that they know (Steven Pinker Quotes) America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself (Steven Pinker Quotes) Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can’t understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on (Steven Pinker Quotes) Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist (Steven Pinker Quotes) Human evolution, at first, seems extraordinary. How could the process that gave rise to slugs and oak trees and fish produce a creature that can fly to the moon and invent the Internet and cross the ocean in boats? (Steven Pinker Quotes) I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a lone heretic. I like to have a significant number of academics watching my back (Steven Pinker Quotes) If crime is going down, you shouldn’t be increasing resources for crime prevention. Or you should be taking note of what has worked and concentrate the crime-prevention methods on policies that have a track record of success (Steven Pinker Quotes) In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that ‘the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.’ (Steven Pinker Quotes) My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one’s convictions can be subjected to empirical test (Steven Pinker Quotes)

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