Famous Steven Pinker Quotes

  • legal investigation. As Clinton noted, -œMy goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful. – Steven Pinker

    legal investigation. As Clinton noted, -œMy goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.– Steven Pinker

  • The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth. – Steven Pinker

    The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.– Steven Pinker

  • Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs. – Steven Pinker

    Organisms are selected to deploy violence only in circumstances where the expected benefits outweigh the expected costs.– Steven Pinker

  • A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others. – Steven Pinker

    A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.– Steven Pinker

  • Today we recognize that the emotion of disgust evolved as an unconscious defense against biological contamination. – Steven Pinker

    Today we recognize that the emotion of disgust evolved as an unconscious defense against biological contamination.– Steven Pinker

  • We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two. – Steven Pinker

    We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two.– Steven Pinker

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

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

  • I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works. – Steven Pinker

    I think about how language works so I can best explain how language works.– Steven Pinker

  • When it comes to correct English, there’s no one in charge; the lunatics are running the asylum. – Steven Pinker

    When it comes to correct English, there’s no one in charge; the lunatics are running the asylum.– Steven Pinker

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

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