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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

#discoveries #exploring #fearful #honest #intellectual

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

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

#creates #culture #does #innate #learning

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

Hoboken is a neat place. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#place

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'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#because #day #easy #find #hunt

Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal! ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#amount #diabetes #disease #fat #greater

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