Edward Thorndike

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. ”

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

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found. ”

Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine. ”

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. ”

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. ”

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology. ”

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man. ”

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