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Steven Pinker Quotes

Canadian - Scientist | September 18, 1954 -

No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.

You Matter Always Cruel Get Still

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

Revolution Better Values Profit Off

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

People World Chance Underestimate Us

The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.

Brain Organization Looking Think You

As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published in a major journal.

Learning Children Language Long Dots

I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.

Time Research Rest Year Teach Write

Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.

Technology Violence Humanity New Out

I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

Serious Never Atheism Conversion Jew

One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.

Life Live Loneliness People Society

The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.

Violence You Over Years See Decades

The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.

People Think You Privilege More

Though as a psychologist I like to think that nothing human is foreign to me, I admit to having been repeatedly flabbergasted by the insouciance, and sometimes relish, with which our ancestors carried out and witnessed unspeakable cruelties.

Me Think Admit Sometimes Nothing

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