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Letter "S" » Steven Pinker Quotes
«There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.»
«One of them is a simple logical point that no matter how important learning and culture and socialization are, they don't happen by magic.»
«Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate.»
«But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.»
«There's no reason that we should give up that lever on people's behavior - namely, the inhibition systems of the brain - just because we're coming to understand more about the temptation systems.»
«My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.»
«By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.»
«My laptop has freed me to travel.»
«My students don't even know I'm gone.»
«During the past century the doctrine of the blank slate has set the agenda for much of the social sciences and humanities, ... ... Psychology has sought to explain all thought, feeling, and behavior with a few simple mechanisms of learning.»