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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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Jean Piaget
Age: 84 †
Born: 1896
Born: August 9
Died: 1980
Died: September 16
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Jean William Fritz Piaget
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What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.
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To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
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