Quotes by : Steven Pinker

If you look in general at people who live in anarchy, they have quite high rates of death from either....

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a....

Science is thus a paradigm for how we ought to gain knowledge—not the particular methods or institutions....

Hobbes's analysis of the causes of violence, borne out by modern data on crime and war, shows that violence....

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities,....

No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate....

cademics and intellectuals are culture vultures. In a gathering of today’s elite, it is perfectly acceptable....

In hermetic isolation, all kinds of bizarre and toxic ideas can fester. Sunlight is the best disinfectant,....

Because much of the content of education is not cognitively natural, the process of mastering it may....

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are....