"The radio was an improvement on the telegraph……" — Alison Gopnik

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have… - Alison Gopnik

"The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect."

— Alison Gopnik

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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,…

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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;… — Charles Babbage
Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of… — Gaston Bachelard
As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New… — Kevin Bacon
I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take… — Alan Ball
The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper,… — Hosea Ballou
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective… — Albert Bandura
The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they… — John Banville
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are… — Gerry Adams
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends… — Henry Adams
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic. — Henry Adams
Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a… — Roseanne Barr
The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of… — John Adams

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