Steven Pinker Quotes

In this life of ours we remain directed toward the relative utopia of a better world, and sensibly this can be the only model for our action.

Progress is the realization of utopia.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.

The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.

We're trying to create a better world, not a perfect one. It cannot ever be perfect.

I'm a realist, and so we have to take what exists and continue to struggle to move forward.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible.

Perfect is unattainable. Better is possible.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.

I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.

Time will perfect matter.

Look at the world around you & imagine it in a better way.

I am a perfect being in a perfect world.

We must build a new world, a far better world - one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

I have no notions of a perfect society, I don’t know what that means. I know we can do much better than what we’ve got, I’m no utopian, I’m not a humanist that would like to see everybody living in warmth and harmony: I know that if we don’t live that way, we’ll kill each other and destroy the Earth.

And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be.

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.

Nobody's perfect, but all of us can be better than we are.

If human progress had been more a matter of leadership we should be in Utopia to-day.