Quote by Steven Pinker
Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art dep

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. – Steven Pinker

Other quotes by Steven Pinker

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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Learning
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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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Poetry
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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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Science
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Other Quotes from
Nature
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Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. – Walter Scott

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Nature

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. – John Muir

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Nature

I can still smell the green of the grass crushed beneath me. Feel the damp of the dew on my elbows. Hear the birdsong. – Kristina Turner, The Self-Healing Cookbook, 2002, originally published 1987

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Nature

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. – e.e. cummings

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Nature

Random Quotes

I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health. – Christopher Shays

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Health

Instead of focusing on that circumstances that you cannot change – focus strongly and powerfully on the circumstances that you can. – Joy Page

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Change

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it. – David Horowitz

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Birthday

The technology is just so far gone. Its just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day. – Jam Master Jay

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Technology