"Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests."

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Before I had kids, I thought you should never lie to a kid. But now I've had them, I realize you almost lie to them by definition, because if you're trying to summarize something for your 1-year-old, you put it in very simple terms. You only gradually complicate the explanation as they get older.

— Emma Donoghue