I teach classes 28 weeks of the year, but the rest of the time I do research and write books.
Steven PinkerThe problem with the emotions is not that they are untamed forces or vestiges of our animal past; it is that they were designed to propagate copies of the genes that built them rather than to promote happiness, wisdom, or moral values.
Steven PinkerWriters acquire their technique by spotting, savoring, and reverse-engineering examples of good prose.
Steven PinkerI never outgrew my conversion to atheism at 13, but at various times was a serious cultural Jew.
Steven Pinker