In existographies, Steven Pinker (1954-) [RGA:89|370+] is a Canadian-born American psychologist, noted for []
Overview
In 2002, Pinker published The Blank Slate: the Modern Denial of Human Nature, which became one of the three books, along with Philip Ball's 2004 book Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another and Jared Diamond’s 2005 book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, that prompted Steve Fuller's 2005 rant article about not being a molecule.
Atheism
Pinker became an atheist at age 13. In 2018, Pinker debated Nick Spencer on “Can Atheists Believe in Human Rights?”. In Ranker
Quotes | By
The following are quotes by Pinker:
“The Bible is a manual for rape, genocide, and the destruction of families. Religion has given us stonings, witch burnings, crusades, inquisitions, jihads, fatwas, suicide bombers...and mothers who drown their children in the river.”
— Steven Pinker (2014)
“The … ultimate purpose of life, mind, and human striving: to deploy energy and information to fight back the tide of entropy and carve out refuges of beneficial order.”
— Steven Pinker (2016), “The Second Law of Thermodynamics” [1]
References
1. Pinker, Stephen. (2016). “The Second Law of Thermodynamics” (Ѻ), in: This Idea is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concept Everyone Should Know (editor: John Brockman). HarperCollins.
External links
● Steven Pinker – Wikipedia.
