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Knowing what to expect from a teacher is a really good thing, of course: It lets you get the right answers more quickly than you would otherwise.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Answers Course Expect Get Good Good Thing Knowing Lets More Otherwise Quickly Really Right Teacher Than Thing Would You

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Even the very youngest children already are perfectly able to discriminate between the imaginary and the real, whether in books or movies or in their own pretend play. Children with the most elaborate and beloved imaginary friends will gently remind overenthusiastic adults that these companions are, after all, just pretend.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Able Adult After Beloved Between Books Children Companions Discriminate Elaborate Even Friends Gently Imaginary Just Most Movies Own Perfectly Play Pretend Real Remind Very Whether Will Youngest

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A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create those worlds. Developing everyday theories, like scientific theories, has allowed human beings to change the world.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Act Allowed Beings Change Change The World Create Developing Even Everyday Explains Human Human Beings Imagine Lets Like More Only Other Scientific See Theories Theory Those Us World Worlds

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Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Ability Change Culture Fundamental Important Instinct Learn Most Nature Our

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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.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Because Better Body Consciousness Death Earth End Fear Heaven Means Our Profoundly Spirit Than Zombie

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Many philosophers say it's impossible to explain our conscious experience in scientific, biological terms at all. But that's not exactly true. Scientists have explained why we have certain experiences and not others. It's just that they haven't explained the special features of consciousness that philosophers care about.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: About Biological Care Certain Conscious Consciousness Exactly Experience Experiences Explain Explained Features Impossible Just Many Others Our Philosophers Say Scientific Scientists Special Terms True Why

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Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: About Baseball Famous Game Get Graduate Graduate School High High School High School Students History Imagine Inner-City Lectures Most Nobody Occasionally Past Plays Reproduce School Schools Science Series Students Taught The History Of Themselves Until Way Were World World Series Would

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What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

~Alison Gopnik

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Overall, female scientists have fewer resources than male scientists, just as poor people have less access to health care. But if you compare male and female scientists with identical resources, you find that the women are just as likely to be successful.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: Access Care Compare Female Fewer Find Health Health Care Identical Just Less Likely Male Overall People Poor Poor People Resources Scientists Successful Than Women Women Are You

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I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.

~Alison Gopnik

Topics: About Children Deeply Find Had Life My Own Own Professional Professional Life Puzzling Relation Spent Still Thinking Three

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: June 16th, 1955

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