Edward Thorndike Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.”

“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 of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.”

“Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.”

“Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.”

“Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.”

“So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.”

“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.”

“From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.”

“The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.”