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Children Quotes by 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,
- Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and…
- Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then…
- What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
- Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies and young children…
- Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was…
- The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of…
- Successful creative adults seem to combine the wide-ranging exploration and openness we see in children with the focus and discipline we see in adults.
- The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.
- Imaginary friends are one of the weirder forms of pretend play in childhood. But the research shows that imaginary friends actually help children understand the…
- Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and…
- We learn differently as children than as adults. For grown-ups, learning a new skill is painful, attention-demanding, and slow. Children learn unconsciously and effortlessly.
- One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find…
- In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention…
- Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes…
- Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as…
- I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world, how we can know as much as…
- Even the very youngest children already are perfectly able to discriminate between the imaginary and the real, whether in books or movies or in their…
- From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the young breathing time to…
- Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different…
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon