If Logic Itself Is Created Rather Than

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.

Much Research In Psychology Has Been More Concerned With How Large Groups Of People Behave Than About The Particular Ways In Which Each Individual Person Thinks... Too Statistical. I Find This Disappointing Because, In My View Of The History Of Psychology, Far More Was Learned, For Example, When Jean Piaget Spent Several Years Observing The Ways That Three Children Developed, Or When Sigmund Freud Took Several Years To Examine The Thinking Of A Rather Small Number Of Patients.

To Understand Is To Invent.

It Is As His Own Mind Comes Into Contact With Others That Truth Will Begin To Acquire Value In The Child's Eyes And Will Consequently Become A Moral Demand That Can Be Made Upon Him. As Long As The Child Remains Egocentric, Truth As Such Will Fail To Interest Him And He Will See No Harm In Transposing Facts In Accordance With His Desires.

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.