Edward Thorndike Quotes

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

Edward Thorndike

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• Historical science is being left in the dust.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Science
  • Being
  • Dust

• Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Absolute

• Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • America
  • Science
  • Kind

• Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Science

• As a senior editor at Tor Books and the manager of our science fiction and fantasy line, I rarely blog to promote specific projects I'm involved with, for reasons that probably don't need a lot of explanation.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • Science
  • Senior
  • Science fiction

• I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.

  

  I. King Jordan
  • Time
  • College
  • Search

• Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it's really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

  

  Randy Newman
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Science
  • Light
  • Single

• When I read about genetics, I see breakthroughs every day. And while I'm trying to learn more about behavioral science, I must say that I don't feel I get tremendous intellectual stimulation from most of the things I read.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Trying
  • Science
  • Day

• Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

  

  Edgar Lee Masters
  • Achievement
  • Gift
  • Strive

• My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Humanity

• I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.

  

  Kate Mulgrew
  • Women
  • Career
  • Science

• The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Science
  • Creative
  • Will

• The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Science

• Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order.

  

  Daniel Nathans
  • Life
  • World
  • Science

• Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Father
  • Science
  • Fool

• I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.

  

  Jill Paton Walsh
  • Moral

• Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus - not imitation.. .From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life - all movement and rhythm - time and light, color and mood - in short, all reality in Form and Thought.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Time
  • Nature

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

  

  Edward Thorndike
  • Science
  • Psychology