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Edward Thorndike Quotes: Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
         

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


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All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.



He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.

He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.



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



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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.



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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.





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