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Edward Thorndike was a prominent psychologist, born on August 31, 1874, and died on August 9, 1949. He made significant contributions to the field of psychology, particularly in the areas of learning theory and animal psychology.

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Famous Edward Thorndike Quotes

“Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.”

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Author:Edward Thorndike

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

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Book:Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals

Source: Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals

“For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.”

Humans Looks Process Animal Development Faculty Association

Book:Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals

Source: Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in Animals

“Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.”

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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 wheel.”

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Author:Edward Thorndike

“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.”

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Book:Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

Source: Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

“To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.”

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Book:Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

Source: Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies

About the Author

Born: August 31, 1874
Died: August 9, 1949
Known for: Psychologist
Quotes: 28

Books & Sources

Animal Intelligence: Experimental StudiesRelated source material

Animal Intelligence: An Experimental Study of the Associative Processes in AnimalsRelated source material

Psychology and the Science of Education: Selected WritingsRelated source material

The Evolution of the Human IntellectRelated source material

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