People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
Steven PinkerWe can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.
Steven PinkerEvolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.
Steven PinkerIn a high tech world the cure for the tragic shortcomings and perilous fallacies of human intuition is education, but education in economics, evolutionary biology, probability and statistics - unfortunately most High School and College curricula have barely changed since Medieval times!
Steven Pinker