Edwin Boring: Experimentation

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

Edwin Boring

Source: Psychologist at large, 1961, p. 3

Understanding , Science

“Fechner laid down the general outlines of his program [psychophysics] in ZendAvesta, the book about heaven and the future life. Imagine sending a graduate student of psychology nowadays to the Divinity School for a course in immortality as preparation for advanced experimental work in psychophysics! How narrow we have become!”

Edwin Boring

Source: History, psychology, and science. 1963, p. 128: As cited in: Hergenhahn (2008;254)

Life , Books , School , Imagination

“American psychology inherited its physical body from German experimentalism, but it got its mind from Darwin.”

Edwin Boring

Source: A History of Experimental Psychology, 1929, p. 494

“The experimental psychologist… needs historical sophistication within his own sphere of expertness. Without such knowledge he sees the present in distorted perspective, he mistakes old facts and old views for new, and he remains unable to evaluate the significance of new movements and methods. In this matter I can hardly state my faith too strongly. A psychological sophistication that contains no component of historical orientation seems to me to be no sophistication at all.”

Edwin Boring

Source: A History of Experimental Psychology, 1929, p. ix; As cited in: Baldwin R. Hergenhahn (2008). An Introduction to the History of Psychology. p. 5

Faith , Knowledge