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Human 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,
- One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.
- 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…
- 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…
- For better or worse, we live in possible worlds as much as actual ones. We are cursed by that characteristically human guilt and regret about…
- 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…
- A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create those…
- 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 Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong