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Animals Quotes by Edward Thorndike
- Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
- From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
- 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.
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