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Steven Pinker
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 18
Anthropologist
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Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Psychologist
University Teacher
Montreal
Quebec
Steven Arthur Pinker
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The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.
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I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.
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Consistent style prevents presentation from getting in the way of content.
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As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.
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As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.
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Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.
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The foundation of individual rights is the assumption that people have wants and needs and are authorities on what those wants and needs are. If people's stated desires were just some kind of erasable inscription or reprogrammable brainwashing, any atrocity could be justified.
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In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.
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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.
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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.'
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We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.
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I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.
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Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
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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.
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If we are not to abandon values such as peace and equality, or our commitments to science and truth, then we must pry these values away from claims about our psychological makeup that are vulnerable to being proven false.
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Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.
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Of course the theory of evolution would be vacuous if it offered a glib explanation for every inexplicable act.
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The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.
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