THE STUDY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
12/22/03 9:37 PM Page 3. CHAPTER 1. THE STUDY OF. HUMAN DEVELOPMENT . If I have seen further . . . it is by standing upon the shoulders of Giants. Sir Isaac Newton Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collec- tion of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. Jules Henri Poincar . Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to cor- rection and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work. James Randi 3. 12/22/03 9:37 PM Page 4. 4 INTRODUCTION. WHAT IS DEVELOPMENT ? This is a book about HUMAN DEVELOPMENT , some of the different theories that have been proposed to explain how DEVELOPMENT takes place, and, perhaps most inter- esting, how we might apply these theories to our everyday lives.
3 1 THE STUDY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT If I have seen furthe r...i its by standing upon the shoulders of Giants. —Sir Isaac Newton Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones.
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