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Steven Pinker [1954-0] Canadian Scientist
Quote rank: 315

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Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

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Knowledge

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