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Conwy Lloyd Morgan
(1852 - 1936)
British psychologist.
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Science Quotes by Conwy Lloyd Morgan (2 quotes)
In no case may we interpret an action [of an animal] as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale.
[Morgan's canon, the principle of parsimony in animal research.]
[Morgan's canon, the principle of parsimony in animal research.]
— Conwy Lloyd Morgan
An Introduction to Comparative Psychology (1894), 53.
The primary aim, object, and purpose of consciousness is control. Consciousness in a mere automaton is a useless and unnecessary epiphenomenon.
— Conwy Lloyd Morgan
An Introduction to Comparative Psychology (1894), 182.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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