Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.
Societies that empower women are less violent in every way. - Steven Pinker
Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.
- Steven Pinker
In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth. - Steven Pinker
In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth.
Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage… - Steven Pinker
Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage…
We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable? - Steven Pinker
We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?
Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless - Steven Pinker
Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless
All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on. - Steven Pinker
All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.
Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn "x" (t gts lttl hrdr f y dn't vn … - Steven Pinker
Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn "x" (t gts lttl hrdr f y dn't vn …
We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one. - Steven Pinker
We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or… - Steven Pinker
Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or…
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