44 ordspråk av Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker
 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. |
| 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. |
| It got ugly. People used this as an occasion to vent a large number of grievances. |
| It's also a recognition that however much people might vary, they have certain things in common by virtue of their common human nature. |
| 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. |
| Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. |
| Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. |
| My laptop has freed me to travel. |
| My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries. |
| My students don't even know I'm gone. |
| no more similar than two people plucked off the street at random. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Personality and socialization aren't the same thing. |
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