Steven Pinker Nature Quotations

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

A hostility to modernity is shared by ideologies that have nothing else in common - a nostalgia for moral clarity, small-town intimacy, family values, primitive communism, ecological sustainability, communitarian solidarity, or harmonies with the rhythms of nature.

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

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.

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

All of us have a theory about human nature.

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