Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether he is normal or retarded. ... We do not attempt to establish or prepare a prognosis… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in order to know whether… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ...… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either.… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore cannot be measured as… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
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… — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words. — Alfred Binet Copy Share Image
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