Steven Pinker Quotes

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

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SmartBrainThinkSparkToolsYou

Glass really rewards risk. A lot of times with glass, you're just waiting for the piece to cool down or for some temperature to adjust, and there's split seconds where you've got a fraction of a second where you get to make a move a particular way, and you don't get to repeat it if you do it wrong.

Jim McKelvey

WaitingCoolYouDownWrongWay

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

John Buchanan Robinson

KnowledgeHimOwnOnlyDomination

I do not own a car, and my main form of travel to Westminster and in my constituency is by bicycle. I also take my bike on trains to meetings in other parts of the country, which enables me to see other cities and the other parts of the country.

Jeremy Corbyn

CarBikeTravelMeBicycleMeetings

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Robert Kennedy

WorkChangeHistoryGreatnessSmall

You can tell everything from the eyes.

Jeff Buckley

EyesYouEverythingTell

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

Jean Rostand

FeelingSaidNothingAbilityGive

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

Michael Shermer

BestControlMoralFollowBehave

I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.

Joy Behar

FoodReachDietYouNeedSomething

As soon as you go into any biological process in any real detail, you discover it's open-ended in terms of what needs to be found out about it.

Joshua Lederberg

DetailProcessYouGoRealOut

Running a TV show is always running a TV show; it's never not running a TV show.

Joss Whedon

NeverAlwaysShowTV ShowTV

I think there's room for people to love 'Transformers' and love 'Insidious.' They coexist in a happy way; in other words, my movies wouldn't exist if 'Transformers' didn't exist, because they're an alternative to that. They're not better or worse, they're just different.

Jason Blum

LoveWordsHappyPeopleBetterWay

I've considered going to lightweight. As soon as my trainer decides that I can go up, then I will.

Jose Aldo

I CanGoWillUpTrainerGoing

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