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The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.

— Edwin Boring

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American psychology inherited its physical body from German experimentalism, but it got its mind from Darwin.

The gift of professional maturity comes only to the psychologist who knows the history of his science.

David Ballin Klein (1977)

Titchener interest lay in the generalized, normal, adult mind that had also been Wundt's main concern.

Psychologically attention is drainage, whatever it may be physiologically.

So far as consciousness goes, one does one's thinking before one knows what he is to think about.

p. 397: Cited in: Jay M. Jackson (2013)

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