Babies Quote by Alison Gopnik

I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my…

— Alison Gopnik

We pass our values, ideas and moral character on to our children, but we do that knowing that our children are going to revise…

— Alison Gopnik

Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring…

— 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,

— Alison Gopnik

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is…

— Alison Gopnik

“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private experiences. Yes,…

— Thomas Mann

What's somewhat puzzling is that Churchill himself knew what the reaction would be to any sort of aerial attack on cities, because in 1938…

— Nicholson Baker

It is puzzling why anyone would want to (become governor of California). It's like vying to become Roseanne Barr's next husband. Sure you'd get…

— Ann Coulter

She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with…

— Jeanette Winterson

I try to weave a secret into each plot. It's the thread that holds the rest of the story fabric together. In fact, it's…

— Sandra Brown

It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy…

— Ernst Gombrich

In 1975, ... [speaking with Shiing Shen Chern], I told him I had finally learned ... the beauty of fiber-bundle theory and the profound…

— Chen-Ning Yang