Home / Quotes / Quote by Steven Pinker

Quote by Steven Pinker

“Una sociedad sin erudición histórica es como una persona sin memoria: engañada, confundida y fácilmente explotada.”

Quote by Steven Pinker

Book:Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Work

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Steven Pinker is a renowned cognitive psychologist, linguist, and author. His research focuses on language, cognition, and human behavior, particularly the relationship between language and thought. Pinker is known for his in-depth research on the evolution of language and his contributions to the field of cognitive science. more

You May Also Like

“The historian is never more himself than when he is searching his mind for a general statement that shall in itself give the hint of its own underlying complexity.”

Writing History Complexity Historian The Past

Book:The Whig interpretation of history

Source: The Whig interpretation of history

“In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. History is rich knowledge.”

“History is rich knowledge, In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. .”

“Historians conquer the past, not the future. (Les historiens conquièrent - Le passé, non l'avenir)”

Past Future Historian Passé Avenir Historien

Author:Charles de Leusse

“History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction.”

Fiction History Historical Historian Human History Movies Literary Works Fictional

Author:A.E. Samaan

“...history is inherently an eclectic discipline and the skills it requires are correspondingly diverse. And therein lie its strengths. Eclecticism is sometimes treated as a dirty word. At the very least it sounds untidy - just so: if historians treat the past in too tidy a manner they lose a great deal...It is precisely the ability to embrace complexities while making sense of them, and to think flexibly about diverse phenomena at distinct analytical levels, that characterises historians' purchase on the past.”

History Historian Eclecticism

Book:History in Practice

Source: History in Practice

“...history is, as R.G. Collingwood suggested, a re-enactment of the past in the mind of the historian...”

Past History Historian

Author:Jerome Buckley

“No historian should be a nationalist. Nationalism consequently leads to the delusion and mystification of the historical facts, consciously or unconsciously, in favour of national interests, which in turn makes history basically a subjective vision system.”

Nationalism Historian Subjectivity

Author:Elmar Hussein

“The Christian historian, like the non-Christian, does valuable service if he does no more than to clear the minds of his audience of some of the nonsense of the slogans and mythologies of his era.”

History Historian Soli Deo Gloria Religious Right

Author:George Marsden

“He (Friedrich Engel de Jánosis) stated clearly that he was the last Engel de Jánosis, when in fact he knew he was not. He left behind his mother, wife, and daughter, all of them Engel de Jánosis. And then there were the Hungarian Engel de Jánosis, his aunts, uncles, cousins still alive in Pécs and in other towns and villages in Hungary. He knew this. They were not dead, not yet anyway, but in his mind, they were. Already, the historian was rewriting history.”

Past Historian Angels

Book:Where the Angels Lived: One Family's Story of Exile, Loss, and Return

Source: Where the Angels Lived: One Family's Story of Exile, Loss, and Return