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The world is but an assembly of present, past, and possible sensations; the affair of science is to analyze and co-ordinate them by separating their accidental from their constant relations.

— Alfred Binet

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Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.

The mechanical conception of the universe is nothing but naïve realism.

We are, for the rest, so wrapped up in sensations that none of our boldest conceptions can break through the circle.

Mind and matter brought down to the essential, to the consciousness and its object, form a natural whole, and the difficulty does not consist in uniting but in separating them.

It seems to me that people of talent and of genius serve better than average examples for making us understand the laws of character, because they present more extreme traits.

Alfred Binet (1903)

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