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By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries abou

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. – Steven Pinker

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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

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As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. – Steven Pinker

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There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization. – Steven Pinker

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It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof. – John Desmond Bernal, The Origin of Life, 1967

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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness. – Charles Darwin

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