Steven Pinker : (12)

" In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them. " - Steven Pinker

" Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy. " - Steven Pinker

" Plants can’t very well defend themselves by their behavior, so they resort to chemical warfare, and plants are saturated with toxins and irritants to deter creatures like us who want to eat them. " - Steven Pinker

" Consciousness surely does not depend on language. Babies, many animals, and patients robbed of speech by brain damage are not insensate robots; they have reactions like ours that indicate that someone’s home. " - Steven Pinker

" My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. " - Steven Pinker

" I think a lot of moral debates are not over what is the basis of justice, but who gets a ticket to play in the game. " - Steven Pinker

" Though as a psychologist I like to think that nothing human is foreign to me, I admit to having been repeatedly flabbergasted by the insouciance, and sometimes relish, with which our ancestors carried out and witnessed unspeakable cruelties. " - Steven Pinker

" 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. " - Steven Pinker

" I don’t think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated. " - Steven Pinker

" By all measures men are the more violent gender. " - Steven Pinker