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Edward Thorndike Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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



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

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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