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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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When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.
— Anton Chekhov
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It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name?…
— Jeanette Winterson
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I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Well, I know that I'll never forget that, but also I won't forget the hundreds of people who sent me letters, telegrams,…
— Gil Hodges
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Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations, and occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality.…
— Mary Douglas
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Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
— E. M. Forster
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The National Security Agency’s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any…
— Frank Church
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Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.
— Alison Gopnik
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When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and…
— Francis Ford Coppola
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Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.
— Tom Hanks
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I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.
— Katherine Mansfield
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I just told Max flatly, "I had laser surgery last week to lighten my birthmark," as if it was no big deal.…
— Justina Chen
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