Steven Pinker Human Nature Quotations

We may be seeing a coming together of the humanities and the science of human nature.

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

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

All of us have a theory about human nature.

I think that there is a quasi-religious theory of human nature that is prevalent among pundits and intellectuals, which includes both empirical assumptions about how the mind works and a set of values that people hang on those assumptions.