The Most Developed Science Remains

It Was While Teaching Philosophy That I Saw How Easily One Can Say ... What One Wants To Say. ... In Fact, I Became Particularly Aware If The Dangers Of Speculation ... It's So Much Easier Than Digging Out The Facts. You Sit In Your Office And Build A System. But With My Training In Biology, I Felt This Kind Of Undertaking Precarious.

Every Time We Teach A Child Something, We Keep Him From Inventing It Himself. On The Other Hand, That Which We Allow Him To Discover For Himself Will Remain With Him Visible For The Rest Of His Life.

The More The Schemata Are Differentiated, The Smaller The Gap Between The New And The Familiar Becomes, So That Novelty, Instead Of Constituting An Annoyance Avoided By The Subject, Becomes A Problem And Invites Searching.

At One Time, Many Philosophers Held That Faultless "laws Of Thought" Were Somehow Inherent, A Priori, In The Very Nature Of Mind. This Belief Was Twice Shaken In The Past Century; First When Russell And His Successors Showed How The Logic Men Employ Can Be Defective, And Later When Freud And Piaget Started To Reveal The Tortuous Ways In Which Our Minds Actually Develop.

The Self Thus Becomes Aware Of Itself, At Least In Its Practical Action, And Discovers Itself As A Cause Among Other Causes And As An Object Subject To The Same Laws As Other Objects.