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Men Quotes by Edward Thorndike
- Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
- 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.
- To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world…
- Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.
- The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
- Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims,…
- 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…
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