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Alison Gopnik Quotes

If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many experiments, how much thinking you see going on, and it will put the most brilliant scientist to shame.

Alison Gopnik

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 16, 1955

Topics

Random Thinking You Will Brilliant

The Hubble Space Telescope is more than remarkable. It has answered just so many of those fundamental questions that people have been asking about the cosmos since people were able to ask questions.

John M. Grunsfeld

Space People Questions More Asking

A boy is naturally full of humor.

Robert Powell

Humor Boy Full Naturally

I'm interested in people's relationship to objects, so I think a lot of my work is very tactile.

Michael Arden

Work Relationship People Think Very

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

John Ratzenberger

Character Someone Cliff Up Started

Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

Stephen Fry

Walk Me Out Film Oh Takes

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.

Steven Pinker

Life Me Hockey Ice Write Ask

The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair

Leadership Art Saying Easy Say Yes

The really good thing about 'Sleepy Hollow' is you have no idea who's going to die when... But then equally, we showed in the pilot several people can come back to life, so you have no idea who's going to come back. Death means very little in our Sleepy Hollow, so expect more surprise deaths and more surprise resurrections.

Tom Mison

Life Good Death People Surprise Die

I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.

Lloyd Bentsen

Learning Community Time Government

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty; and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice.

Louis D. Brandeis

Good Justice Democracy American Own

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

Arthur Bloch

Enough Long You Will Improve Break

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

Penn Jillette

Fear Hope Religion Reward Morality