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Malacologist Inspirational Quotes (69)

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I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among the most interesting that I have ever seen.
Edward Forbes
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Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
Jean Piaget
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Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
Jean Piaget
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If mutual respect does derive from unilateral respect, it does so by opposition.
Jean Piaget
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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.
Jean Piaget
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Play is the work of childhood.
Jean Piaget
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Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.
Jean Piaget
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Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space.
Edward Forbes
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Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.
Edward Forbes
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To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
Jean Piaget
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The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth.
Giovanni Battista Brocchi
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The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.
Georges Cuvier
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Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.
Jean Piaget
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Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself.
Jean Piaget
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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.
Jean Piaget
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At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from which it would have been taken. The whole being to which this fragment belonged appears in my mind's eye.
Georges Cuvier
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Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.
Jean Piaget
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Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.
Jean Piaget
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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.
Jean Piaget
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Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.
Jean Piaget
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All organs of an animal form a single system, the parts of which hang together, and act and re-act upon one another and no modifications can appear in one part without bringing about corresponding modifications in all the rest.
Georges Cuvier
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Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.
Georges Cuvier
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The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.
Georges Cuvier
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All known living bodies are sharply divided into two special kingdoms, based upon the essential differences which distinguish animals from plants, and in spite of what has been said, I am convinced that these two kingdoms do not really merge into one another at any point.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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