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"Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher."
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"In worthy teaching, all things are related."
"Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it."
"A sage is a good teacher, but an even greater learner."
"Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone."
"Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them."
"Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands."
"Someone has to do it. It's all very well calling for eye of newt, but do you mean Common, Spotted or Great Crested? Which eye, anyway? Will tapioca do just as well? If we substitute egg white will the spell a) work b) fail or c) melt the bottom out of the cauldron? Goodie Whemper's curiosity about such things was huge and insatiable*.* Nearly insatiable. It was probably satiated in her last flight to test whether a broomstick could survive having its bristles pulled out one by one in mid-air. According to the small black raven she had trained as a flight recorder, the answer was almost certainly no."
"Mind of a loving heart is the fountain of knowledge."
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"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."
"In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact."
"This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge."
"The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly."
"To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active."
"Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions."
"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."
"The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense."
"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."
"Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next."
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