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.
More Quotes from Steven Pinker:
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.Steven Pinker
As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones.
Steven Pinker
Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection?
Steven Pinker
I think that there is a quasi-religious theory of human nature that is prevalent among pundits and intellectuals, which includes both empirical assumptions about how the mind works and a set of values that people hang on those assumptions.
Steven Pinker
But in most cases even the possibility that the correlations reflect shared genes is taboo.
Steven Pinker
It got ugly. People used this as an occasion to vent a large number of grievances.
Steven Pinker
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: socializationI have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.
James Monroe
Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times.
Franz Marc
The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.
Mike Ferguson