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Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Capacities His Man Mental More Nature Nowhere Part Than Truly

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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.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Acquired Animal Behavior Concern Conscious He Himself His Inner Inner Life Life Observer Original Others Outside Response Some Statements States Ways

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There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: About Act Animal Box Comparison Does Food He Ideas Inference Perform Process Putting Reasoning Things Think Thinking Together Two

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Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Amongst Animals Another King Leads Man Minds Planet Race Same

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

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Affirm Animals Found Intellect Intelligence Lowest Man Type Up Which

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It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Advance Advantage Changing Common Contribute Controlling Course Directly Every Human Human Nature Indirectly Late Nature Our Sciences Soon Success Understood Will

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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.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Century Character Consciousness Emphasized Intellect Last Life Neglect Nineteenth Nineteenth Century Psychological Quarter Study Total Whole Work

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

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Act Animal Finally Fitting Only Performs Situation

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The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Acts Because Brain Connections Dog Each Fashion Few Hand His Ideas Other Process Single

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

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Associations Complexity Consists Delicacy Evolution Formation Increase Intellectual Number Permanence Race Speed

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: August 31st, 1874

Died: August 9th, 1949

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