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Steven Pinker Quotes

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: September 18, 1954

Topics

Failure Culture Think Thinking Our

We're constantly re-evaluating the potential for life. We're finding it where we didn't think it could exist, such as volcanic vents and other extreme conditions like under arctic ice. We're finding life in these incredibly harsh and dynamic conditions, so we're having to re-evaluate our own ideas of what's possible on this planet alone.

Life Alone Ideas Think Potential

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

Johannes Brahms

Table Hard Leave Notes Superfluous

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

First Master Himself Shows

I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.

Jennifer Garner

Work Happy Times Square Subway Up

John Lithgow was absolutely wonderful in 'Dexter,' there's no doubt about it.

Doubt Wonderful Absolutely No Doubt

The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially.

Speak Cow Back Numbers Investigation

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

Mission President Out Vice Failed

The chance you passed up or missed could have had any number of different outcomes, and it's easy to fantasize about how much better every one of those outcomes would have been.

Robin Marantz Henig

Chance Better Easy You Missed Up

For me, being able to be vulnerable is difficult, but it's just something that I feel comfortable doing. I need to fully understand why, the thought-process behind the character and I have to believe it. That comes from a lot of preparation.

Character Preparation Me Believe Why

Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump.

Work Bicycle You Know Because Pump

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

More Never She Always Pretty May

Right when 'Liv and Maddie' had started, there was no roadmap for how to do a show where one girl played two. It's just not something that is often done, so we had nothing to refer to.

Girl Done Nothing Right Two Started

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