Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist and linguist, born in 1954. He is also an author of popular science, such as “The Better Angels of Our Nature” (2011) and “Enlightenment Now” (2018).
This is a collection of quotes by Steven Pinker.
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There is a growing movement called Humanism, which promotes a non-supernatural basis for meaning and ethics: good without God.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
There's the common veneration (not just by the religious) of faith, namely believing something without a good reason.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Time is what life is made of, and one metric of progress is a reduction in the time people must devote to keeping themselves alive at the expense of the other, more enjoyable things in life.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Time spent with friends makes a life happier; time spent with loved ones makes it more meaningful.
Steven PinkerSource: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.
Steven PinkerSource: How the Mind Works
We are all intuitive physicists, biologists, engineers, psychologists, and mathematicians. Thanks to these inborn talents, we outperform robots and have wreaked havoc on the planet.
Steven PinkerSource: How the Mind Works
We shouldn't deceive ourselves about self-deception.
Steven PinkerSource: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
What kind of mind would do something as useless as inventing ghosts and bribing them for good weather?
Steven PinkerSource: How the Mind Works
What people want to do is not necessarily what they ought to do.
Steven PinkerSource: How the Mind Works