Grehe Velazquez

“Journalists sometimes speculate about “brain transplants” when they really should be calling them “body transplants,” because, as the philosopher Dan Dennett has noted, this is the one transplant operation in which it is better to be the donor than the recipient.”
― Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

“The reason things unacceptable in life are acceptable in fiction is because fiction is often the only way we can comfortably examine the morally obscene. For”
― Chuck Klosterman, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains

“In either case genetics and neuroscience are showing that a heart of darkness cannot always be blamed on parents or society.”
― Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

“The conscious mind—the self or soul—is a spin doctor, not the commander in chief.”
― Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature