Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Quotes by Alexander Bain (October 1811 – January 2, 1877)

Alexander Bain Quotes


- Instinct is untaught ability.

- Superior intellect is a large development of the faculty of association by similarity.

- The arguments for the two substances [mind and body] have, we believe, entirely lost their validity; they are no longer compatible with ascertained science and clear thinking. The one substance, with two sets of properties, two sides, the physical and the mental—a double-faced unity—would appear to comply with all the exigencies of the case.

- The most essential nature of a sentient being, which is to move to pleasure and from pain.

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