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There could be multiple sources for this line.?Piaget reused examples he liked many times.? One variation can be found in a speech from 1972, delivered to the Eisenhower Symposium on "Creativity: Moving Force of Society" at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore.?The text below was translated by Eleanor Duckworth and edited by Jeanette Gallagher.? Piaget is here quoting a physicist from his group in Geneva: "the creative physicist, in spite of his knowledge, succeeds in staying in part a child, with the curiosity and the candor of invention that characterize most children until they are deformed by adult society." (p.229) The reference is to Appendix B, "Speeches by Piaget and Inhelder," in Gallagher & Reid's book of 1981: "The Learning Theory of Piaget & Inhelder."