"The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally."
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Steven Pinker, born on September 18, 1954, in Montreal, Canada, is a renowned cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author celebrated for his insights into language, mind, and human nature. A professor at Harvard University, Pinker has significantly influenced public discourse with his bestselling books, such as "The Better Angels of Our Nature" and "Enlightenment Now," which advocate for reason, science, and humanism. His legacy lies in his ability to distill complex ideas into accessible narratives, challenging perceptions of progress and human behavior.
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"I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties."
Steven Pinker"Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point."
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"Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality."
Steven Pinker"Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control."
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"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"Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change."
Steven Pinker"The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second World War in Europe. The Inquisition, the persecution of heretics and infidels and witches, they racked up pretty high death tolls."
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