Progress is not a miracle, but a fact. We are all beneficiaries of the Enlightenment— inheritors of human rights, freedom of speech, and science.Steven Pinker
We are living longer, healthier, freer, and more affluent lives not just in the West, but worldwide. These trends show that Enlightenment values, like reason and science, have raised humanity above the state of nature.Steven Pinker
Since the Enlightenment, we have learned to understand natural phenomena by building mathematical models of them and testing them against the evidence.Steven Pinker
The Enlightenment has worked—perhaps the greatest story seldom told.Steven Pinker
If you think the world is coming to an end, think again: people are living longer, healthier, freer, and happier lives.Steven Pinker
Knowledge has always been our greatest weapon against the darkness. The pursuit of knowledge, therefore, can never be a bad thing.Steven Pinker
Enlightenment ideals like reason, science, humanism, and progress have brought us out of the muck of superstition, ignorance, disease, violence, and terror.Steven Pinker
The use of knowledge to enhance human well-being, the conviction that all problems can be solved if we apply the right tools and the commitment to the betterment of humanity, has led to the progress we see today.Steven Pinker
By every measure of human welfare, life has been getting better. The progress has been historically unprecedented and historically robust.Steven Pinker
Even if the world were not becoming safer, richer, and healthier, it would be mad not to make full use of the gifts of science, reason, humanism, and progress.Steven Pinker