Steven Pinker Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Steven Pinker quotes and sayings page 5 (70 year old scientist). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 125 we have for him.
“Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.”
“I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.”
“Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.”
“In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.”
“Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.”
“Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.”
“I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game.”
“Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.”
“The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.”
“Equity feminism is a moral doctrine about equal treatment that makes no commitments regarding open empirical issues in psychology or biology.”
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