Quote by Steven Pinker
There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that crea

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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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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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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Learning
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In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly. – Neil Gaiman

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Learning

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. – Antisthenes

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Learning

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! – Maria Mitchell

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Learning

It wasnt until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money! – John Davidson

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Learning

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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. – David Hume

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Knowledge

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. – Swami Vivekananda

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God

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. – J.K. Galbraith

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Conformity

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. – George Eliot

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Truth