# Enlightenment Now

- Author: [Steven Pinker](https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pinker.md)
- Quotes: 2
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/steven-pinker/enlightenment-now

## Quotes

> A major breakthrough of the Scientific Revolution - perhaps its biggest breakthrough - was to refute the intuition that the universe is saturated with purpose. In this primitive but ubiquitous understanding, everything happens for a reason, so when bad things happen - accidents, disease, famine, poverty - some agent must have wanted them to happen.

p. 24

> The moral value of quantification is that it treats all lives as equally valuable, so actions that bring down the highest numbers of homicides prevent the greatest amount of human tragedy.

p. 173