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Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.
~ Steven Pinker
Academics
Argue
Because
Curse
Debate
Imagine
Inability
Know
Knowledge
Lack
Like
Perspective
Round
Something
Suffer
Whether
World
Would
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All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.
~ Steven Pinker
Get
News
Occur
Reported
Violence
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All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain.
~ Steven Pinker
Activity
Brain
Our
Result
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All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.
~ Steven Pinker
Activity
Any
Believe
Brain
Going
Magic
No Reason
Our
Reason
Result
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America had, for one thing, lived in anarchy for - until much more recently than Europe. We had the Wild West, where the cliche of the cowboy movies was the nearest sheriff is 90 miles away, and so you had to pack a gun and defend yourself.
~ Steven Pinker
America
Anarchy
Away
Cliche
Cowboy
Defend
Europe
Gun
Had
Lived
Miles
More
Movies
Much
Nearest
One Thing
Pack
Recently
Sheriff
Than
Thing
Until
West
Where
Wild
Wild West
You
Yourself
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An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.
~ Steven Pinker
About
Amount
Atom
Code
Enormous
Genetic
Language
Like
Meant
Metaphorical
Model
Moon
Originally
Planets
Scientific
Solar
Solar System
Sun
System
Talk
Though
Were
Where
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An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to help the beholder find the fittest mate.
~ Steven Pinker
Beauty
Beholder
Evolved
Eye
Faces
Fertility
Find
Fittest
Had
Health
Help
Just
Locks
Mate
Onto
Predict
Show
Signs
Would
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Anything that makes it easier to imagine trading places with someone else increases your moral consideration for that other person.
~ Steven Pinker
Anything
Consideration
Easier
Else
Imagine
Increases
Makes
Moral
Other
Person
Places
Someone
Trading
Your
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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.
~ Steven Pinker
Between
Children
Connecting
Development
Dots
Graduate
Graduate Student
Journal
Language
Learning
Long
Major
Mathematical
Models
Paper
Published
Student
Wrote
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As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.
~ Steven Pinker
Academic
Anyone
Believe
Conscious
Cruelty
Deny
Every
Except
Exercise
Feelings
Force
History
Human
Just
Learns
Long
Long History
Me
Nothing
Other
People
Philosophy
Power
See
Student
Vice
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As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another.
~ Steven Pinker
Another
Course
Daily
Daily Lives
Different
Embedded
Got
Hire
Individual
Interested
Lives
Makes
Marry
Our
People
Person
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As long as your ideology identifies the main source of the world's ills as a definable group, it opens the world up to genocide.
~ Steven Pinker
Genocide
Group
Ideology
Ills
Long
Main
Main Source
Opens
Source
Up
World
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As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
~ Steven Pinker
Come
Down
Empowered
Gender
Measures
Men
More
Number
Reasons
Violence
Violent
Women
Women Are
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Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of Shakespeare and so on.
~ Steven Pinker
About
Ancient
Astrology
Had
Important
Important Role
Know
Many
Plays
Role
Shakespeare
Something
Things
Understand
Unless
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Being smarter gives you a tailwind throughout life. People who are more intelligent earn more, live longer, get divorced less, are less likely to get addicted to alcohol and tobacco, and their children live longer.
~ Steven Pinker
Addicted
Alcohol
Being
Children
Divorced
Earn
Get
Gives
Intelligent
Less
Life
Likely
Live
Longer
More
People
Smarter
Throughout
Tobacco
Who
You
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Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role for religion in public life, laissez-faire economic policies, private ownership of guns and relaxed conditions for using them, less regulation and taxation, and a valorization of the traditional family.
~ Steven Pinker
Aggressive
Candidate
Conditions
Desert
Economic
Economic Policies
Family
Guns
Less
Life
Military
Mountain
Ownership
Policies
Private
Private Ownership
Public
Public Life
Regulation
Relaxed
Religion
Role
Southern
Speaking
States
Taxation
Them
Traditional
Traditional Family
Using
Vote
Western
Who
Will
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By all measures men are the more violent gender.
~ Steven Pinker
Gender
Measures
Men
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Violent
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'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.
~ Steven Pinker
Capitalism
Dirty
Economies
Free
Genocide
Intellectuals
Many
Negatively
Number
Open
Showing
Studies
Trade
War
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Capitalism saved the world, and there is even a heretical theory now, moving up from the level of individuals to countries: countries that trade more and have more open economies are less likely to fight wars and less likely to have genocides.
~ Steven Pinker
Capitalism
Countries
Economies
Even
Fight
Individuals
Less
Level
Likely
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Moving
Now
Open
Saved
Theory
Trade
Up
Wars
World
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Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance than on resource scarcity.
~ Steven Pinker
Armed
Bad
Change
Climate
Climate Change
Conflict
Could
Depends
Governance
Ideology
Large-Scale
Leading
Lot
Misery
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Necessarily
Produce
Resource
Scarcity
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Waste
Which
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