Steven Pinker

Quotes

1. Genes are a play within a play, not the interior monologue of the players."

   p. 44

2. 

   The idea that thought is the same thing as language is an example of what can be called a conventional absurdity: a statement that goes against all common sense but that everyone believes because they dimly recall having heard it somewhere and because it is so pregnant with implications.

   p. 57

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