PINKER: I’m probably not the person to judge. I know from my own field of psychology that we are all apt to overestimate our talents. If I were to say I had a lot of common sense, that would probably not be an exercise of common sense. ...
STEVEN PINKER:One aspect of the book unlike anything that came out of the Enlightenment is the use of data as a basic component of the argumentation. It’s not that I think Enlightenment figures would have found this mode of argument alien. On the contrary, the use of graphs to visualize ...
— Steven Pinker, professor of psychology, Harvard University, and author ofHow the Mind WorksandThe Language Instinct “Steven Strogatz should do for math what Julia Child did for cookery. He shows that this stuff really matters, and he shows that it can nourish us.” ...