Daniel Levitin on Knowledge
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Daniel Levitin, catalogued under knowledge, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Daniel Levitin, entry #33005: "The six types of song that have shaped human nature—friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion, and love songs—I've come to think are obvious..."
Attributed to Daniel Levitin, entry #35606: "We can say that speaking French "runs in families," but I don't know anyone who would claim that speaking French is genetic."
4 Quotes by Daniel Levitin on Knowledge
"The six types of song that have shaped human nature—friendship, joy, comfort, knowledge, religion, and love songs—I've come to think are obvious..."
"We can say that speaking French "runs in families," but I don't know anyone who would claim that speaking French is genetic."
"Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; rather, they are people who are happy with what they already have. Happy people engage in satisficing all of the time, even if they don’t know it."
"One hundred years from now Beatles songs may be so well known that every child will learn them as nursery rhymes, and most people will have forgotten who wrote them. They will have become sufficiently entrenched in popular culture that it will seem as if they've always existed, like Oh Susannah, This Land Is Your Land, and Frère Jacques."