There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.
Steven Pinker
Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the language equally quickly. So no... →
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good... →
I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universities, journalism and intellectual culture.
Human beings were put on the planet to depend upon their Creator and to worship their Creator at every point in every sphere of culture.
John Piper
The absence of God in most spheres of life is perceived to be normal, and even Christians feel it as normal - which is why absorbing the culture all... →
Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference... →
The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of... →
Henri Pirenne
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.
Robert M. Pirsig
The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a... →
Bernard Pivot