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.
Edward ThorndikeThe 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.
Edward ThorndikeFor origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
Edward Thorndike