史蒂芬·平克
語言與心智研究權威
教育的目的是彌補我們本能思維方式的不足。
The more you know about something, the more interesting it becomes.
你對某件事了解得越多，它就會變得越有趣。
The arts are a way of making sense of the world.
藝術是理解世界的一種方式。
The present is the future of the past.
現(xiàn)在是過去的未來。
The human mind is not a blank slate at birth.
人類心智在出生時并非一張白紙。
The most important thing about a technology is how it changes the way we live.
關于技術最重要的事情是它如何改變我們的生活方式。
大腦是一種計算機。
The way to make progress is to acknowledge ignorance.
The mind is a system of organs of computation, designed by natural selection to solve the kinds of problems our ancestors faced in their foraging way of life.
心智是一個計算器官的系統(tǒng)，通過自然選擇設計來解決我們祖先在覓食生活方式中面臨的各種問題。
Language is a window into human nature.
語言是通向人性的窗口。