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Alison Gopnik has 53 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really…
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Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the…
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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 had three…
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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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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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Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from…
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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 in stone,…
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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 love them.
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Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning…
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We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith,…
— Dean Koontz
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Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish…
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Sometimes people can surprise you. Sometimes they have a great capacity to hear the truth.
— Unknown Author
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To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence.
— Cesar Chavez
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Some of the greatest minds on earth also have a great capacity to remember. Many would prefer to forget their memories of…
— Anthony Douglas
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Those who suffer great adversity and sorrow and go on to serve their fellowmen develop a great capacity to understand others. Like…
— Carlos H. Amado
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then…
— Abraham Verghese
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While we all have a great capacity to love, very few of us will love the proper way.
— Frederick Lenz
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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…
— Alison Gopnik
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Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
— George Eliot
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What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources -…
— Henry Ford
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I am inviting you to go deeper, to learn and to practice so that you become someone who has a great capacity…
— Nhat Hanh
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