"Culture is our nature, and the ability to……" — Alison Gopnik

"Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct."

53 Quotes by Alison Gopnik

Alison Gopnik has 53 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you…
Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush,…
What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've…
Owning our past allows us to own our future.
The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.
It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production…
Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they…
The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written…
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and…
Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually,…

See all 53 quotes by Alison Gopnik »

More Ability Quotes

This quote is filed under Ability Quotes, one of 5,560 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are… — M H Abrams
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. — Mary Kay Ash
As we've gotten more successful, there's a gap between the speed of our publishing pipeline and the speed of our… — Julian Assange
Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos… — Rowan Atkinson
Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike… — Rowan Atkinson
As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say,… — Margaret Atwood
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under… — Marcus Aurelius
Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson
The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital… — Joe Baca

See all 5,560 Ability Quotes »

"Culture is our nature, and the ability to……" — Alison Gopnik

Related Quotes

53 Quotes by Alison Gopnik

More Ability Quotes