Pinker — “Our greatest enemies are ultimately not our political…”

Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress — Steven Pinker

Book page: pinker-enlightenment-now

From: Steven Pinker — Quotes

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Our greatest enemies are ultimately not our political adversaries but entropy, evolution (in the form of pestilence and the flaws in human nature), and most of all ignorance—a shortfall of knowledge of how best to solve our problems.