Alison Gopnik Quotes

The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

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• I was married for 36 years but now I'm free.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Free
  • Married
  • Now

• I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Good
  • God
  • Bad

• I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Worry
  • Idea
  • Often

• Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.

  

  J.P. Rangaswami
  • Company
  • Social
  • Convinced

• Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • May
  • Understanding
  • Same

• I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • World
  • Challenge
  • Creating

• I can't dance.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Dance

• Man, Farmville is so huge! Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the world?

  

  Randall Munroe
  • World
  • Game
  • Man

• I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Children
  • Emotional

• My hair had been dyed blonde for 'Dredd.' After 'Dredd,' I was really fried because of the blonde hair dye, and so I cut it into a bob with bangs and that's how it was during 'Being Flynn.'

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Hair
  • Being
  • Blonde

• You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Life
  • Know
  • My Life

• The whole spirit of 'Eddie The Eagle' is that it's the taking part that counts, not the winning.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Winning
  • Spirit
  • Eagle

• At the corner of the white marble platform, which is 23 yards above the level of the ground, stand four minarets, also of marble, with interior staircases and capped by cupolas, which are 7 cubits in diameter and rise to a total of 32 cubits from the pavement of the said platform to the filial, appearing as it were, like ladders reaching towards the heavens.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks

• The richness of human life is that we have many lives, we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do, and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay...

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Life
  • Live
  • Die

• True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Writing
  • Art
  • True

• I stepped back and all I saw was rain through windowpanes that looked like melting silver.

  

  Khaled Hosseini
  • Rain

• Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people.

  

  Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People

• The mission statement was ordered, and it sent the 800th MP Brigade, effective the first of July, up to Baghdad. I joined my brigade to take command at the end of June.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Up
  • June

• I definitely want to design clothes at one point.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • Design

• You can't just drop everything and focus on playing video games for a living.

  

  Richard Tyler Blevins
  • Focus
  • Living
  • Video Games

• Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • English
  • Manage
  • Languages

• If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Brother
  • Feet
  • Trumpet

• I barely got out of school, I got out of school, mainly, because I was a champ, and I actually didn't pass. I won't name the teachers that put me through, but I want. If I was not a Muslim, or a follower of the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I couldn't talk to somebody for two minutes. I believe I can hold my own as an intelligent conversation, but it all come from the Honorable Elijah Mohammed.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • School
  • I Believe
  • Teachers

• The best scientific way to discover if one factor influences another is to do a controlled experiment.

  

  Alison Gopnik