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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
Alfred Binet
Born: July 8, 1857
Died: October 18, 1911 (aged 54)
Bio: Alfred Binet was a French psychologist who invented the first practical intelligence test, the Binet-Simon scale.
Known for:
- The Mind and the Brain (1907)
- Alterations of Personality
- On Double Consciousness (1890)
- The intelligence of the feeble-minded
- The psychic life of micro-organisms (1889)
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