“There's a misconception that survival of the fittest means survival of the most aggressive. The adjective 'Darwinian' used to refer to ruthless competition; you used to read that in business journals....”

Steven Pinker

“I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.”

Steven Pinker

“The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.”

Steven Pinker

“It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things...”

Steven Pinker

“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.”

Steven Pinker