Biology Quote by Jean Piaget

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition…

— Jean Piaget

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

— Theodore Bikel

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so…

— Talcott Parsons

I am quite wedded to the view that epistemologists should concern themselves with knowledge rather than our concept of knowledge. The analogy I like…

— Hilary Kornblith

“The key principle of Jean Piaget's genetic epistemology is constructivism. Constructivism rejects old-fashioned rationalism: Knowledge is not made out of special knowledge-parts preformed in…

— Ulrich Müller

Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the…

— Celia Green

One of the goals of scientific theorising is to develop concepts which are adequate to the phenomena under study. In my view, things should…

— Hilary Kornblith

Science is a systematic means of gaining reliable knowledge.

— John Dewey

Any systematic body of knowledge is science. The more systematic the body of knowledge is the more scientific it is.

— Kedar Joshi

The basis of the discovery is imagination, careful reasoning and experimentation where the use of knowledge created by those who came before is an…

— Bengt I. Samuelsson

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species…

— David Deutsch

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.

— Michael Polanyi