Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.

I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

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.

Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.

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.

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.

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.

The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.

What teenagers want most of all are social rewards, especially the respect of their peers.

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel

When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.

Waiting is the most exquisitely painful part of loving someone.

A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration.

I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism.

Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.

Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Maybe if he did really well they'd give him some mouldy apples.