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Steven Pinker
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 18
Anthropologist
Linguist
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Psychologist
University Teacher
Montreal
Quebec
Steven Arthur Pinker
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I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.
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Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men.
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Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
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Writers acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.
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Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language.
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A successful learner, . . . must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others.
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Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.
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If anything, Powerpoint, if used well, would ideally reflect the way we think.
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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.
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The world has far too much morality.
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Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs safe from ordinary standards of evaluation, can only corrupt this fabric, just as a contradiction can corrupt a system of logic, allowing falsehoods to proliferate through it.
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The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.
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Disgust is intuitive microbiology
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Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality.
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Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless
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I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.
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Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.
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Consistent style prevents presentation from getting in the way of content.
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No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.
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As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
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