Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings.
Steven PinkerIf you give people literacy, bad ideas can be attacked and experiments tried, and lessons will accumulate.
Steven PinkerConventions are unstated agreements within a community to abide by a single way of doing things - not because there is any inherent advantage to the choice, but because there is an advantage to everyone making the same choice.
Steven PinkerThe rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
Steven Pinker