"Babies and young children are like the research……" — Alison Gopnik
"Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing,"
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53 Quotes by Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik has 53 quotes on this site.
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The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you…
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Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush,…
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What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've…
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Owning our past allows us to own our future.
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The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.
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It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.
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Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they…
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The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written…
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Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
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I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and…
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Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually,…
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Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a…
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More Babies Quotes
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Apart from anything else, I am designed by evolution, like we all are: if we see a little thing like…
— David Attenborough
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If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you…
— Dave Barry
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I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very…
— Mayim Bialik
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There should be a worldwide law, in my opinion, that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months.
— Gisele Bundchen
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but…
— Louisa May Alcott
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My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more…
— Margaret Cho
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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
— Deepak Chopra
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The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
— Jennifer Aniston
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Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're…
— George Carlin
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The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the…
— Rajneesh
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"I call them april babies cause they fools"
— Lil Wayne
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I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.
— Robert Orben
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