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Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavi

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man. – Edward Thorndike

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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. – Edward Thorndike

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Learning
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Edward Thorndike
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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

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Food
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The most remarkable discovery ever made by scientists was science itself. – Jacob Bronowski

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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. – Bertrand Russell

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Observations always involve theory. – Edwin Hubble

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So I decided on science when I was in college. – Sally Ride

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