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The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called 'life', expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

~Edsger Dijkstra

Topics: Above Animal Being Being Prepared Circus Disappointed Expects He His Learn Life Like Next Nothing Only Prepared Standards Students Training Tricks Wild Will

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Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

~Edward Bond

Topics: Animal Conscious Even Human More Often Our Than Unconscious

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Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.

~Edward Forbes

Topics: About Animal Animal Life Life Zero

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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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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 restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Animal Character Conscious Human Influence Intellect Psychology Restriction Scientific States Studies Without

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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 it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Almost Animal Compared Distortion Facts Harmless Life Marvelous Mental Neglect Unconscious Until Unusual

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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 man.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Animal Associations Case Complexity Delicacy Formation Growth Man Number Permanence Possible Speed

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When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Act Animal Elements Feelings Instead Merely Out Particular Set Situation Some Think Way

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