"By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu."

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Steven Pinker

#Discovery Quotes #Political Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.”
“Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.”
“[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.”

Source : Dagmar Godowsky (1958). “First Person Plural: The Lives of Dagmar Godowsky”, Viking Adult
“At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.”
“The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.”
“To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.”
“As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories”
“I said, 'If the quarterback is a runner, it'll work.' But if your quarterback's not a runner, in my judgment and in the judgment of most of the people, it wouldn't work without the quarterback running the ball.”

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