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Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension … he is right … most of the time.

— 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.

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

Psychologically attention is drainage, whatever it may be physiologically.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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