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

Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.

- 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?

- 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…

- Steven Pinker

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- Steven Pinker

We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.

- Steven Pinker

Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless

- 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.

- 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…

- Steven Pinker