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Animal Quotes by Edward Thorndike
- Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
- Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways…
- When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular…
- From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
- The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual…
- The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.
- Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
- Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.
- For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
- So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.
- This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of…
- There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no…
More Animal Quotes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
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