Quote by Steven Pinker
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Mus

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

Other quotes by Steven Pinker

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

Category:
Equality
Read Quote

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

Category:
Science
Read Quote

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

Category:
Nature
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Poetry
category

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. – Gertrude Stein

Category:
Poetry

Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich. – William Bolitho

Category:
Poetry

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images. – Niels Bohr

Category:
Poetry

Prose talks and poetry sings. – Franz Grillparzer

Category:
Poetry

Random Quotes

The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of. – Gilbert Murray

Category:
Happiness

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. – Noam Chomsky

Category:
Fascism

So Ive broadened the fitness concept to make it one of moderation and balance. – Kenneth H. Cooper

Category:
fitness

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust. – Ruth J. Simmons

Category:
Trust