Steven Pinker Quotes:
Ocupation: Psychologist
Life: b. September 18, 1954
Birthday: September 18
What is true for the emotions may also be true for the intellect. Some of our perplexities may come from a mismatch between the purposes for which our cognitive faculties evolved and the purposes to which we put them today.
source: Steven Pinker (2003). “The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature”, p.295, Penguin
topic: Purpose, May, Today, Perplexity, Mismatch
