I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.Steven Pinker
No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.Steven Pinker
Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.Steven Pinker
Evolution is an indispensable component of any satisfying explanation of our psychology.Steven Pinker
As individual people, embedded in our daily lives, of course we're interested in what makes one person different from another. We've got to hire one person and not another, marry one person and not another.Steven Pinker
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
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.Ralph Waldo Emerson
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.Karl Marx