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Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
Canadian Scientist
Born: Sep 18, 1954
Language Life People Think World You
Related authors: David Suzuki Frederick Banting Gad Saad Hans Selye Hugh Ross Orlando Aloysius Battista Sid Meier William Osler
Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change. Steven Pinker
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You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain. Steven Pinker
You Word Emotion Raw Always Sound Hear Brain Just Meaning Associated
I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless you identify the learning mechanisms. And these have some genetic basis. Steven Pinker
You Learning Unless Out Some Point Argued Never Genetic Identify Massively Learn Understand How Trying Mechanisms Humans Basis
As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender. Steven Pinker
Women Men Gender Down More Come Empowered Women Are Measures Reasons Violence Violent Number
I don't think there was a thunderclap or a divine spark that suddenly made one species smart. You can see, in our ancestors, there was a gradual expansion of the brain; there was an expansion of the complexity of tools. Steven Pinker
You Smart Made Think Tools Our Ancestors Complexity See Divine Brain Expansion Gradual Spark Suddenly Species
Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease. Steven Pinker
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It's misleading to essentialize an entire society as if it were a single mind. Steven Pinker
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My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. Steven Pinker
Job Field Saw Worst Running Boss Never Students Had He Developments New Contempt Learned Department Younger Researchers Who Chair Nuisance Appreciate
I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world. Steven Pinker
World Language Our Ways Obsessions Because Very Reflects Interested
Capitalism saved the world, and there is even a heretical theory now, moving up from the level of individuals to countries: countries that trade more and have more open economies are less likely to fight wars and less likely to have genocides. Steven Pinker
Capitalism Fight World Saved More Open Individuals Countries Economies Likely Trade Up Moving Less Theory Wars Even Now Level
I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment. Steven Pinker
Best Book Think Rise Printing Sellers Reforms May Literacy Publication Humanitarian Enlightenment Phenomenon Coincidence
There is a correlation between economic inequality and personal violence. The explanation for the correlation isn't completely clear; there are a number of possibilities. Steven Pinker
Possibilities Correlation Economic Clear Between Inequality Personal Explanation Violence Number
We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them. Steven Pinker
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The way to understand how different species evolved is to think about the niches that they fill in an ecosystem - basically, how they make a living. Steven Pinker
Living Think Way Evolved About Ecosystem Make Understand How Different Fill Niches Species Basically
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