Citas de Steven Pinker

• Yo diría que nada da más sentido a la vida que darse cuenta de que cada momento de conciencia es un don precioso y frágil.

  Steven Pinker

  Dar, Propósito, Realización

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• Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn "x" (t gts lttl hrdr f y dn't vn kn whr th vwls r)

  Steven Pinker

  Thanks, Language, Redundancy

  Steven Pinker (1994). “The Language Instinct”, William Morrow & Company

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• All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

  Steven Pinker

  Believe, Psychology, Magic

  "Steven Pinker: The evolutionary man". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

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• Nunca tendremos un mundo perfecto, pero no es romántico ni ingenuo trabajar por uno mejor.

  Steven Pinker

  Perfecto, Mundo, Un Mundo Perfecto

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• Without goals the very concept of intelligence is meaningless

  Steven Pinker

  Goal, Concepts, Meaningless

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• Las sociedades que empoderan a las mujeres son menos violentas en todos los sentidos.

  Steven Pinker

  Empowering, Way, Empowering Women

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• Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.

  Steven Pinker

  Reading, Technology, Perspective

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.203, Penguin

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• La psicología cognitiva ha demostrado que la mente comprende mejor los hechos cuando están entretejidos en un tejido conceptual, como una narración, un mapa mental o una teoría intuitiva. Los hechos inconexos en la mente son como páginas sin enlaces en la Web: Es como si no existieran.

  Steven Pinker

  Psychology, Mind, Woven

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• In our society, the best predictor of a man's wealth is his wife's looks, and the best predictor of a woman's looks is her husband's wealth.

  Steven Pinker

  Marido, Hombres, Esposa

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.482, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

  Steven Pinker

  Revenge, War, Water

  "Steven Pinker: 'Artists used to gush about the beauty of war. The First World War put an end to that'". Interview with Clint Witchalls, www.independent.co.uk. 10 November, 2011.

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• La psicología cognitiva nos dice que la mente humana sin ayuda es vulnerable a muchas falacias e ilusiones debido a que confía más en su memoria para las anécdotas vívidas que en las estadísticas sistemáticas.

  Steven Pinker

  Memories, Psychology, Mind

  "Steven Pinker: fighting talk from the prophet of peace". Interview with John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2011.

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• Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.

  Steven Pinker

  Baby, Reading, Different

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• I never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.

  Steven Pinker

  Atheism, Serious, Jew

  "Steven Pinker: the mind reader". www.theguardian.com. November 5, 1999.

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• La razón no es negociable. Intenta argumentar en contra de ella, o excluirla de algún ámbito del conocimiento, y ya habrás perdido la discusión, porque estás utilizando la razón para defender tus argumentos. ... No "creemos" en la razón.

  Steven Pinker

  Fe, Creer, Gente

  "Un padre brillante enseña a sus hijos a discutir con él usando la retórica de la antigua Grecia". rebrn.com. 29 de mayo de 2009.

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• Morality comes from a commitment to treat other as we wish to be treated, which follows from the realization that none of us is the sole occupant of the universe.

  Steven Pinker

  Commitment, Wish, Realization

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• We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?

  Steven Pinker

  Heaven, Fleas, Dry

  "Steven Pinker: the mind reader". www.theguardian.com. November 5, 1999.

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• Qué aburrido sería el universo si todo en él se ajustara a nuestras expectativas, si no contuviera nada que nos sorprendiera o desconcertara o confundiera nuestro sentido común. Hace un siglo nadie preveía la existencia de agujeros negros, un universo en expansión, océanos en las lunas de Júpiter o ADN. ¿Qué puede ser más enriquecedor que saber que compartimos un origen común con todos los seres vivos, que somos parientes de los chimpancés, las secuoyas y los moluscos? ¿Y no es una fuente de asombro darse cuenta de que el hierro de nuestra sangre y el calcio de nuestros huesos se crearon en el vientre de las supernovas?

  Steven Pinker

  Ocean, Moon, Dna

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• La democracia es una forma imperfecta de conducirse entre la violencia de la anarquía y la violencia de la tiranía, con la menor violencia posible.

  Steven Pinker

  Democracia, Camino, Anarquía

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• Knowing there is a world that will outlive you, there are people whose well-being depends on how you live your life, affects the way you live your life, whether or not you directly experience those effects. You want to be the kind of person who has the larger view, who takes other people's interests into account, who's dedicated to the principles that you can justify, like justice, knowledge, truth, beauty and morality.

  Steven Pinker

  Atheist, Knowing, Views

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• It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

  Steven Pinker

  Science, Thinking, Humanity

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• All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.

  Steven Pinker

  News, Violence

  "War And Violence On The Decline In Modern Times". Talk of the Nation with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 8, 2012.

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• But the 20th century suffered "two" ideologies that led to genocides. The other one, Marxism, had no use for race, didn't believe in genes and denied that human nature was a meaningful concept. Clearly, it's not an emphasis on genes or evolution that is dangerous. It's the desire to remake humanity by coercive means (eugenics or social engineering) and the belief that humanity advances through a struggle in which superior groups (race or classes) triumph over inferior ones.

  Steven Pinker

  Meaningful, Struggle, Believe

  "Q&A: Steven Pinker of 'Blank Slate'". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. October 30, 2002.

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• We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.

  Steven Pinker

  Sound, Visuals, Creatures

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• I suspect music is auditory cheesecake, an exquisite confection crafted to tickle the sensitive spots of... our mental faculties.

  Steven Pinker

  Sensitive, Cheesecake, Spots

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.534, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The idea that children are passive repositories to be shaped by their parents has been massively overstated. A child's peer group is a far greater determinant of its development and achievements than parental aspiration.

  Steven Pinker

  Children, Ideas, Achievement

  "Steven Pinker: The evolutionary man". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2008.

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