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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.Collection: Alison
Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.Collection: Alison
The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.Collection: Alison
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.Collection: Alison
What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.Collection: Alison
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.Collection: Alison
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.Collection: Alison
Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.Collection: Alison
Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.Collection: Alison
The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort perhaps to those of us who still thrill to the smell of a library.Collection: Alison
We know what makes babies smart and happy and thrive. It's having human beings who are dedicated to caring for them - human beings who are well supported, not stressed out and not poor.Collection: Alison