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Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. - Steven Pinker Quotes

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.

Canadian Scientist Children

We may be seeing a coming together of the humanities and the science of human nature. - Steven Pinker Quotes

We may be seeing a coming together of the humanities and the science of human nature.

I think that there is a quasi-religious theory of human nature that is prevalent among pundits and intellectuals, which includes both empirical assumptions about how the mind works and a set of values that people hang on those assumptions. - Steven Pinker Quotes

I think that there is a quasi-religious theory of human nature that is prevalent among pundits and intellectuals, which includes both empirical assumptions about how the mind works and a set of values that people hang on those assumptions.

There's no reason that we should give up that lever on people's behavior - namely, the inhibition systems of the brain - just because we're coming to understand more about the temptation systems. - Steven Pinker Quotes

There's no reason that we should give up that lever on people's behavior - namely, the inhibition systems of the brain - just because we're coming to understand more about the temptation systems.

All of us have a theory about human nature. - Steven Pinker Quotes

All of us have a theory about human nature.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. - Steven Pinker Quotes

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Art Canadian Scientist

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization. - Steven Pinker Quotes

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Canadian Scientist Culture

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses. - Steven Pinker Quotes

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

Canadian Scientist Information

But a conception of human nature, and its connections to other fields such as politics and the arts, have been there from time immemorial. - Steven Pinker Quotes

But a conception of human nature, and its connections to other fields such as politics and the arts, have been there from time immemorial.

Canadian Scientist Human Nature

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. - Steven Pinker Quotes

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.

Canadian Scientist Example

One of them is a simple logical point that no matter how important learning and culture and socialization are, they don't happen by magic. - Steven Pinker Quotes

One of them is a simple logical point that no matter how important learning and culture and socialization are, they don't happen by magic.

Canadian Scientist Culture

Political equality consists of recognizing, as the Constitution says, that people have certain inalienable rights, namely life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Recognizing those rights is not the same thing as believing that people are indistinguishable in every respect. - Steven Pinker Quotes

Political equality consists of recognizing, as the Constitution says, that people have certain inalienable rights, namely life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Recognizing those rights is not the same thing as believing that people are indistinguishable in every respect.

It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig of the tree of life, namely ours, having a big brain happened to have advantages. But that's just what worked for a particular species of primate 5 to 7 million years ago. - Steven Pinker Quotes

It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig of the tree of life, namely ours, having a big brain happened to have advantages. But that's just what worked for a particular species of primate 5 to 7 million years ago.

If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time. - Steven Pinker Quotes

If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. - Steven Pinker Quotes

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Canadian Scientist Human Nature

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu. - Steven Pinker Quotes

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.

Canadian Scientist

My laptop has freed me to travel. - Steven Pinker Quotes

My laptop has freed me to travel.

My students don't even know I'm gone. - Steven Pinker Quotes

My students don't even know I'm gone.

During the past century the doctrine of the blank slate has set the agenda for much of the social sciences and humanities, ... ... Psychology has sought to explain all thought, feeling, and behavior with a few simple mechanisms of learning. - Steven Pinker Quotes

During the past century the doctrine of the blank slate has set the agenda for much of the social sciences and humanities, ... ... Psychology has sought to explain all thought, feeling, and behavior with a few simple mechanisms of learning.

It got ugly. People used this as an occasion to vent a large number of grievances. - Steven Pinker Quotes

It got ugly. People used this as an occasion to vent a large number of grievances.

Even if he does occasionally hurt people's feelings -- he occasionally hurts my feelings -- but I'm a big boy. I can get over it. I can argue back. We really need somebody to question the way a university is run. - Steven Pinker Quotes

Even if he does occasionally hurt people's feelings -- he occasionally hurts my feelings -- but I'm a big boy. I can get over it. I can argue back. We really need somebody to question the way a university is run.

That isn't really a question that can be answered. - Steven Pinker Quotes

That isn't really a question that can be answered.

they aren't identical lumps of clay. - Steven Pinker Quotes

they aren't identical lumps of clay.

no more similar than two people plucked off the street at random. - Steven Pinker Quotes

no more similar than two people plucked off the street at random.

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo. - Steven Pinker Quotes

But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.

Canadian Scientist

To make changes you have to make some enemies, but you also have to be careful not too make too many enemies. He made far too many enemies. - Steven Pinker Quotes

To make changes you have to make some enemies, but you also have to be careful not too make too many enemies. He made far too many enemies.

The three-year-old, then, is a grammatical genius - master of most constructions, obeying rules farmore often than flouting them, respecting language universals, erring in sensible, adultlike ways, and avoiding many kinds of errors altogether. - Steven Pinker Quotes

The three-year-old, then, is a grammatical genius - master of most constructions, obeying rules farmore often than flouting them, respecting language universals, erring in sensible, adultlike ways, and avoiding many kinds of errors altogether.

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection? - Steven Pinker Quotes

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?

Canadian Scientist Mind

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. - Steven Pinker Quotes

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Art Canadian Scientist

It's also a recognition that however much people might vary, they have certain things in common by virtue of their common human nature. - Steven Pinker Quotes

It's also a recognition that however much people might vary, they have certain things in common by virtue of their common human nature.

Canadian Scientist People

Intellectual life was enormously affected by an understandable revulsion to Nazism, with its pseudoscientific theories of race, and its equally nonsensical glorification of conflict as part of the evolutionary wisdom of nature. - Steven Pinker Quotes

Intellectual life was enormously affected by an understandable revulsion to Nazism, with its pseudoscientific theories of race, and its equally nonsensical glorification of conflict as part of the evolutionary wisdom of nature.

Life

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing. - Steven Pinker Quotes

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

Canadian Scientist Personality

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. - Steven Pinker Quotes

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.

Canadian Scientist

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. - Steven Pinker Quotes

As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.

Canadian Scientist Commitment

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero. - Steven Pinker Quotes

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

Canadian Scientist Doctrine

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. - Steven Pinker Quotes

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Canadian Scientist Human Nature

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. - Steven Pinker Quotes

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

Canadian Scientist

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? - Steven Pinker Quotes

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

Canadian Scientist Mind

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections. - Steven Pinker Quotes

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

Canadian Scientist People

I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker. - Steven Pinker Quotes

I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker.

Canadian Scientist

For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on. - Steven Pinker Quotes

For example, parents who talk a lot to their children have kids with better language skills, parents who spank have children who grow up to be violent, parents who are neither too authoritarian or too lenient have children who are well-adjusted, and so on.

The three-year-old, then, is a grammatical genius - master of most constructions, obeying rules far
more often than flouting them, respecting language universals, erring in sensible, adultlike ways,
and avoiding many kinds of errors altogether. - Steven Pinker Quotes

The three-year-old, then, is a grammatical genius - master of most constructions, obeying rules far more often than flouting them, respecting language universals, erring in sensible, adultlike ways, and avoiding many kinds of errors altogether.

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