#out

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#artists #depends #human #human nature #many

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

— Steven Pinker

#clones #commitment #empirical #equality #many

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

#discoveries #exploring #fearful #honest #intellectual

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

I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see, taste, smell, feel, and hear them. Then what I do is, not write about that kid or about his world, but start to think of a book that would have pleased him. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#book #child #childhood #feel #hear

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#accept #found #government #i #knighthood

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

I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#bit #cancer #come #could #even

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past? ↗

— Harold Pinter

#about #afford #earth #five #forget

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#because #dead #i #ought #over