The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch …

- Alison Gopnik

Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from the data and …

- Alison Gopnik

All of us gardeners know that nothing comes out the way you planned. It's a different garden every year, and it's always sort of different from what …

- Alison Gopnik

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

- Alison Gopnik

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

- Alison Gopnik

We pass our values, ideas and moral character on to our children, but we do that knowing that our children are going to revise our knowledge and resh…

- Alison Gopnik

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.

- Alison Gopnik

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

- Alison Gopnik

From an evolutionary perspective children are, literally, designed to learn. Childhood is a special period of protected immaturity. It gives the youn…

- Alison Gopnik