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Alison Gopnik Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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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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.



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.

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.



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



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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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