Chimpanzees Quote by Wolfgang Kohler

“It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all.” quote by Wolfgang Kohler — Download Open image

“It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all.”

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“In his great treatise, Electricity and Magnetism, Clerk Maxwell had remarked that we are often told that in science we must, first of all, investigate the properties of very small local places one after another, and only when this has been done can we permit ourselves to consider how more complicated situations result from what we have found in those…

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“Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.”

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Psychology is a very unsatisfactory science.

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