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Becoming an adult means leaving the world of your parents and starting to make your way toward the future that you will share with your peers.
— Alison Gopnik
Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.
— Alison Gopnik
Faith is the highest passion in a man.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Owning our past allows us to own our future.
— Alison Gopnik
My hobby is fishing for girls.
— Tom Kaulitz
Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the plant a desired shape,
— Alison Gopnik
The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.
— Alison Gopnik
The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.
— Alison Gopnik
Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.
— Alison Gopnik
Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.
— Alison Gopnik
One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.
— Alison Gopnik
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
— Victor Hugo
Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.
— Alison Gopnik
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
— Alison Gopnik
What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.
— Alison Gopnik
The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.
— Alison Gopnik
What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.
— Alison Gopnik
The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.
— Alison Gopnik
Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
— Alison Gopnik
Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going.
— Alison Gopnik
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
— Alison Gopnik
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 double espressos.
— Alison Gopnik
Knowledge guides emotion more than emotion distorts knowledge.
— Alison Gopnik
In nature, golden illustrations lie upon the surface.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
An eye for an eye? How Christian of you.'Unbelievers always want other people to act like Christians. — Orson Scott Card
We all have minds that are capable of knowledge; therefore, if you work at it, eventually knowledge can be gained.
— Dalai Lama XIV
This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins.
— Elizabeth Moon
It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.
— Alison Gopnik
