The typical imperative from biology is not "Thou shalt..., " but "If ... then ... else.
Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
Check all other quotes by Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
Want to display this quote image on your website or blog? Simply copy and paste the below code on your website/blog.
Embed:Format of this image is jpg. The width and height of image are 1200 and 630, repectively. This image is available for free to download.
Citation
Use the citation below to add this quote to your bibliography:
MLA Style Citation
"Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works Quotes." Quoteslyfe.com, 2024. Wed. 25 Dec. 2024. <https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/The-typical-imperative-from-biology-is-not-249978>.
Check out
Other quotes of Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works
A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.
I think moralistic science is bad for morals and bad for science.
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.
Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on the wall. The skull is our cave, and mental representations are the shadows.
The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.
We should expose whatever ends are harmful and whatever ideas are false, and not confuse the two.
A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.
Other quotes you may like
World is not complex, Intricacy is not in the situations. Intricacy is in our minds.
The devil's weapon is an illusion of our imagination.
Zaphod had never heard of this. He believed that he had heard of all the fun things in the Galaxy, so he assumed that the Total Perspective Vortex was not fun.
Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.
If I see a chapstick that I've never tried, I have to buy it. And then once that door's been opened, I have to check the whole store to see if there are more chapsticks that I don't have.
Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?
Antonin Scalia knows that freedom of speech has consequences. And the consequences of freedom of speech are speech you don't like, that you don't want to hear, that you don't want to listen to.
O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!