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"The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality."
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🇨🇭Jean Piaget
Philosophy
1896–1980
"If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition."
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Francis Buchanan-Hamilton
Medicine
1762–1829
"“...from its name, Ramgar, I am inclined to support that it was a part of the building actually erected by Rama."
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🇬🇧Charles Eliot (diplomat)
Politics
1862–1931
"In Buddha, says Sir Charles Eliot, “the world is not thought of as the handiwork of a divine personality, nor the moral law as his will. The fact that religion can exist without these ideas is of capital importance."
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🇬🇧Thomas Pennant
Science
1726–1798
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Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck
Science
1744–1829
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William Elford Leach
Science
1790–1836
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🇫🇷Georges Cuvier
Science
1769–1832
"It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them."
5 quotes
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"Education, for most people, means trying to lead the child to resemble the typical adult of his society... But for me, education means making creators... You have to make inventors, innovators, not conformists."
— Jean Piaget, b. 1896View →
"If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition."
— Jean Piaget, b. 1896View →
"I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From the moment an organism takes account of a previous experience and adapts to a new situation, that very much resembles psychology."
— Jean Piaget, b. 1896View →
"The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation."
— Jean Piaget, b. 1896View →
"Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations."
— Jean Piaget, b. 1896View →