"Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no……" — Edward Thorndike
"Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine."
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28 Quotes by Edward Thorndike
Edward Thorndike has 28 quotes on this site.
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Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
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All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.
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Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
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Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
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On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to…
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Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern…
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It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human…
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The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because…
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When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we…
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From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
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The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until…
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The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a…
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
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To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in…
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