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Edwin Boring Quotes

Doing an experiment is not more important than writing.

Doing an experiment is not more important than writing.

Edwin Boring
Writing, Science, Important

The historical approach to understanding of scientific fact is what differentiates the scholar in science from the mere experimenter.

Edwin Boring
Understanding, Historical, Facts
"Psychologist at large: An autobiography and selected essays". Book by Edwin Boring, p. 3, 1961.

Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.

Edwin Boring
Education, Giving Up, Fear
"Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology". Book by Edwin Boring. Preface. p. XI, 1942.

Half the time I read Hayek's The Sensory Order with amazement at the extent of his reading and comprehension. He is right most of the time.

Edwin Boring
Reading, Order, Half
"Elementist Going Up". The Scientific Monthly, p. 183, March 1953.

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