Best quotes by Steven Pinker on People

Checkout quotes by Steven Pinker on People

• ‟ People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.

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• ‟ When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy.

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• ‟ If you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.

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• ‟ Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.

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• ‟ People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.

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