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But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#coming #depend #genetically #information #many

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#because #claims #clash #connections #empirical

Why are empirical questions about how the mind works so weighted down with political and moral and emotional baggage? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#baggage #down #emotional #empirical #how

Why do people believe that there are dangerous implications of the idea that the mind is a product of the brain, that the brain is organized in part by the genome, and that the genome was shaped by natural selection? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#brain #dangerous #genome #idea #implications

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#critical #i #i think #intelligence #intend

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#cover #looking #nakedness #say #speech

I would encourage anybody struggling with their sexuality to go with their heart. If it's not an appropriate time, there will be one later. Never, ever try to rush into anything - do it in your own time. ↗

— Danny Pintauro

#anything #appropriate #appropriate time #encourage #ever

It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask who am I, what do I want to be when I grow up. I never got to do Dan Pintauro. ↗

— Danny Pintauro

#am #ask #could #dan #down

There is absolutely no way for a sitcom to be a challenge to me. ↗

— Danny Pintauro

#challenge #me #sitcom #way

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#boy #go #go away #good #i