This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.
Edward ThorndikeDogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.
Edward ThorndikeThe intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
Edward Thorndike