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Knowledge is the product of leisure. The members of a very primitive society have no time to amass knowledge; their days are fully occupied with the provision of the bare necessities of life. But as soon as a community begins to accumulate wealth, and so becomes able to support a leisured class (priests, instructors of rich men's children), an opportunity is created for those who desire knowledge to devote their lives to its acquirement. Out of this 'curiosity to know' science is born.

Edward B. Titchener

An argument from probability is like an India-rubber ball; you hit it, and it may fly away, or it may return to you, all the more vigorously the harder you hit.

Edward B. Titchener

Common sense is the very antipodes of science.

Edward B. Titchener

The formulation of a scientific law, therefore, means the final writing of some paragraph in some chapter of that book of the world which contains all the different sciences.

Edward B. Titchener

Edward B. Titchener

Edward B. Titchener

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Born: January 11, 1867

Died: August 3, 1927 (aged 60)

Bio: Edward Bradford Titchener was a British psychologist who studied under Wilhelm Wundt for several years. Titchener is best known for creating his version of psychology that described the structure of the mind: structuralism.

Known for:

A text-book of psychology (1909)
A beginner's psychology (1915)
Primer of psychology (1898)
An outline of psychology (1896)

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