“In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is...” — Jean Piaget Quote

In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle.

I always like to think on a problem before reading about it.

Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

I don't relate to people that look like me. I find it deeply unsatisfying to play a version of myself. It was something I had to figure out really early on, when I was at RADA, because I was being cast, over and over again, as the young, virginal thing. When I left RADA, I was on an absolute mission to never wear make-up.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.