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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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A fiction writer is never entirely alone. Her characters are constantly whispering in her ear.
— Cinda Williams Chima
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The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow,…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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If I can make one generalised statement, and generalised statements are never entirely true, nobody wants to be talked down to, kids…
— Spike Jonze
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For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.
— Frederick Buechner
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
— A. N. Wilson
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You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not…
— Larry Wall
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It's just that to a lot of British people George Bush represents the worst of all things American. He's the right-wing Christian…
— Graham Joyce
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The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
— Thomas Hardy
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A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then…
— Jean Kerr
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
— Charles Bukowski
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The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
— Sigmund Freud
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to…
— Agnes de Mille
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