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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. - Steven Pinker Quotes
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. - 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. - Steven Pinker Quotes
But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo. - Steven Pinker Quotes
But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and dont depend on information coming in from the senses. - 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. - Steven Pinker Quotes
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. - Steven Pinker Quotes
Evolutionary psychology is taking that mindset and applying it to more emotionally charged aspects of behavior, such as sexuality, violence, beauty, and family feelings. - Steven Pinker Quotes
I dont consider myself to be that radical a thinker. - 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. - Steven Pinker Quotes
Its 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
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. - Steven Pinker Quotes
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. - 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. - Steven Pinker Quotes
One of them is a simple logical point that no matter how important learning and culture and socialization are, they dont happen by magic. - 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. - Steven Pinker Quotes
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they havent given much thought to the connections. - Steven Pinker Quotes
Personality and socialization arent the same thing. - Steven Pinker Quotes
So no, its not all in the genes, but what isnt in the genes isnt in the family environment either. It cant be explained in terms of the overall personalities or the child-rearing practices of parents. - 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. - 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. - 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. - Steven Pinker Quotes
Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? - 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? - Steven Pinker Quotes
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