4 Jean Piaget Quotes on Science

Jean Piaget quotes on science

2. Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. They are more or less isomorphic to transformations of reality. The transformational structures of which knowledge consists are not copies of the transformations in reality; they are simply possible isomorphic models among which experience can enable us to choose. Knowledge, then, is a system of transformations that become progressively adequate.

6. The principal goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done; men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers, who can be critical and verify, and not accept, everything they are offered.

11. Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

12. Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process.