Steven Pinker Quotes - Page 8

• La probabilidad de que las diferencias innatas contribuyan al estatus social no significa que sea el único factor.

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  Mean, Equality, Differences

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.208, Penguin

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• Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage?

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  Emotional, Political, Mind

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• In the past two decades anthropologists have gathered data on life and death in pre-state societies rather than accepting the warm and fuzzy stereotypes. What did they find? In a nutshell: Hobbes was right, Rousseau was wrong.

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  Past, Data, Two

  "The Blank Slate". Book by Steven Pinker, 2002.

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• Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is the seat of our drives, temperaments and patterns of thought. Each of us is dealt a unique hand of tastes and aptitudes, like curiosity, ambition, empathy, a thirst for novelty or for security, a comfort level with the social or the mechanical or the abstract. Some opportunities we come across click with our constitutions and set us along a path in life.

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  Ambition, Unique, Opportunity

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• Muchos artistas y estudiosos han señalado que, en última instancia, el arte depende de la naturaleza humana.

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  Art, Human Nature, Scholar

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 18, 2017.

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• No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.

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  Expression, People, Individuality

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• La evolución humana, al principio, parece extraordinaria. ¿Cómo pudo el proceso que dio origen a las babosas, los robles y los peces producir una criatura capaz de volar a la Luna, inventar Internet y cruzar el océano en barco?

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  Ocean, Moon, Tree

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• Journalists say that when a dog bites a man, that is not news, but when a man bites a dog, that is news ... Thanks to the mathematics of combinatorics, we will never run out of news.

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  Correr, Perro, Hombres

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.118, W. W. Norton & Company

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• La materia de la vida resultó no ser un gel tembloroso, resplandeciente y maravilloso, sino un artilugio de diminutas plantillas, muelles, bisagras, varillas, láminas, imanes, cremalleras y trampillas, ensambladas por una cinta de datos cuya información se copia, descarga y escanea.

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  Spring, Glowing, Data

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Galileo wrote that 'the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics; without its help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it.'

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  Book, Helping, Impossible

  Steven Pinker (2003). “How the Mind Works”, p.325, Penguin UK

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• In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.

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  Running, White, Space

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language”, p.171, Penguin UK

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• El comercio y los intercambios hacen que los demás sean más valiosos vivos que muertos y que la gente intente anticiparse a lo que el otro necesita y quiere. Pone en marcha los mecanismos del altruismo recíproco, como lo llaman los biólogos evolutivos, en contraposición a la dominación pura y dura.

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  Mean, People, Guy

  "The Importance of Being Businessworthy" by Per L. Saxegaard, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 4, 2015.

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• In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'

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  Class, Ideas, Political

  Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.154, Penguin

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• Mother Teresa was the very embodiment of saintliness: white-clad, sad-eyed, ascetic and often photographed with the wretched of the earth.

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  Mother, White, Earth

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• Los académicos carecen de perspectiva. En un debate sobre si el mundo es redondo, dirían que no porque es un esferoide oblongo. Sufren la "maldición del conocimiento": la incapacidad de imaginar lo que es no saber algo que saben.

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  Perspectiva, Sufrimiento, Incapacidad

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• Consistent style prevents presentation from getting in the way of content.

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  Style, Way, Consistent

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• El fundamento de los derechos individuales es el supuesto de que las personas tienen deseos y necesidades y son autoridades en cuanto a cuáles son esos deseos y necesidades. Si los deseos declarados de las personas fueran sólo una especie de inscripción borrable o de lavado de cerebro reprogramable, cualquier atrocidad podría estar justificada.

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  Rights, People, Desire

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

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  Opinion, Philosopher, Human Nature

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 18, 2017.

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• Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.

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  Design, Evolution, Natural

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.158, W. W. Norton & Company

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• However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

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  Class, Want, Might

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• Probablemente Hobbes acertó cuando dijo que un leviatán, un tercero con el monopolio del uso legítimo de la fuerza en un territorio, podría ser una de las mayores técnicas de reducción de la violencia jamás inventadas.

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  Party, Technique, Use

  "War And Violence On The Decline In Modern Times". "Talk Of The Nation" with Neal ConanN, www.npr.org. December 7, 2011.

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• Unfortunately, creative people are at their most creative when writing their autobiographies.

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  Writing, People, Creative

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.361, W. W. Norton & Company

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• El imperativo típico de la biología no es "Tú debes... sino "Si... entonces... si no".

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  Typical, Biology, If Then

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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.

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  Sleep, Thinking, Situation

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• Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for centuries, and that have been disavowed by every thoughtful usage manual.

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  Thoughtful, Style, Oral Tradition

  "Oaf of Office" by Steven Pinker, www.nytimes.com. January 21, 2009.

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