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> [Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-binet/mere-numbers-cannot-bring-out-the-intimate-essence-of-the-experiment/)

[Alfred Binet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-binet/)

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> [Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-binet/some-recent-philosophers-seem-to-have-given-their-moral-approval-to/)

[Alfred Binet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-binet/)

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> [A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-binet/a-few-modern-philosopher-s-assert-that-an-individual-s-intelligence/)

[Alfred Binet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-binet/)

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## More by Alfred Binet

> [Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-binet/heredity-to-our-understanding-is-not-capable-of-giving-to-this/)

[Alfred Binet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-binet/)

> [Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-binet/our-purpose-is-to-be-able-to-measure-the-intellectual-capacity-of-a/)

[Alfred Binet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-binet/)

> [Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-binet/mere-numbers-cannot-bring-out-the-intimate-essence-of-the-experiment/)

[Alfred Binet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-binet/)

> [ I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved \[by large studies\]; the statistical… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-binet/i-wish-that-one-would-be-persuaded-that-psychological-experiments/)

[Alfred Binet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-binet/)

> [Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-binet/some-recent-philosophers-seem-to-have-given-their-moral-approval-to/)

[Alfred Binet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-binet/)

> [A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-binet/a-person-may-be-a-moron-or-an-imbecile-if-he-is-lacking-in-judgment/)

[Alfred Binet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-binet/)

> [It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-binet/it-seems-to-us-that-in-intelligence-there-is-a-fundamental-faculty/)

[Alfred Binet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-binet/)

> [The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-binet/the-scale-properly-speaking-does-not-permit-the-measure-of-the/)

[Alfred Binet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-binet/)

> [Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-binet/could-we-look-into-the-head-of-a-chess-player-we-should-see-there-a/)

[Alfred Binet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-binet/)

> [A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-binet/a-few-modern-philosopher-s-assert-that-an-individual-s-intelligence/)

[Alfred Binet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-binet/)

> [The intelligence of an individual in not a fixed quantity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-binet/the-intelligence-of-an-individual-in-not-a-fixed-quantity/)

[Alfred Binet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alfred-binet/)

> [Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alfred-binet/comprehension-inventiveness-direction-and-criticism-intelligence-is/)

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