The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
Edward ThorndikeFor origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
Edward ThorndikeThe dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.
Edward Thorndike