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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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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Equality
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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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Nature
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As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens. – Stephen Graham, The Gentle Art of Tramping

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Nature

Im not into organized religion. Im into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing were all just part of nature. – Neil Young

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Nature

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. – William Howard Taft

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Nature

A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. – William Shakespeare

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Nature

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I like to dedicate myself wholeheartedly to a cause so that I have more impact. My goal is to shed light on the beauty of the ocean and how important it is for our planet. – Hayden Panettiere

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Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary. – John Hawley

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Anniversary

Everyone hooks up with George Clooney. Hes a genuinely cool guy. Hes using his powers for good. – William H. Macy

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Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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