“Bad things can happen quickly, but good things aren't built in a day, and as they unfold, they will be out of sync with the news cycle.” — Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“We will never have a perfect world, and it would be dangerous to seek one. But there is no limit to the betterments we can attain if we continue to apply knowledge to enhance human flourishing.” — Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“Intellectuals hate progress. Intellectuals who call themselves progressive really hate progress.” — Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“The world has made spectacular progress in every single measure of human well-being. Here is a second shocker: almost no one knows about it.” — Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018
“Progress is not utopia, but the gradual improvement of human flourishing through reason, science, and humanism.” — Steven Pinker · Enlightenment Now, 2018