List of Alison Gopnik Quotes

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Alison Gopnik
Total Quotes 54
Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. but very fortunately for me, when i started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.
Children Philosophy Real
We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in heaven than a zombie on earth.
Mean Heaven Zombie
It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.
Inspiring Player Years
Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.
Design Scientist Like Me
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.
Mean Parent Leaving
Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: how should this society work? how should relationships among people work? the exploration is: who am i, what am i doing?
Children People Profound
The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.
Way Influence Experiments
The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.
Radio Improvement Telegraph
What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? the answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.
Children Teenage Answers
If parents are the fixed stars in the childs universe, the vaguely understood, distant but constant celestial spheres, siblings are the dazzling, sometimes scorching comets whizzing nearby.
Stars Sibling Parent
Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. and we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways.
Dog Animal Intelligent
The more obsessively we focus on what a particular food is going to do for us, the less healthy we've become. simple pleasures become complicated.
Simple Focus Healthy
  • Born: June 16, 1955
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