Steven Pinker Quotes & Sayings (Page 12)
Steven Pinker quotes and sayings page 12 (69 year old scientist). Here's quote # 111 through 120 out of the 125 we have for him.
“The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.”
“I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.”
“I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.”
“People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.”
“The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.”
“The way to understand how different species evolved is to think about the niches that they fill in an ecosystem - basically, how they make a living.”
“Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.”
“Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.”
“We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.”
“All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.”
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