“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