Terminal Quotes (3 quotes)
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well—something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin in the history of ideas, a vast structure of radically unsound design and with no posterity.
'Victims of Psychiatry', The New York Review of Books (23 Jan 1975), 21. Cited in David E. Stannard, Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory (1980), 150.
The problems facing schools and educators everywhere are personal, political, financial and spiritual. These will not be solved merely by putting more terminals and video screens into the classroom.
From interview with Marion Long, 'The Turncoat of the Computer Revolution', New Age Journal (Dec 1985), II, No. 5, 49, as quoted in John Beynon and Hugh Mackay (eds.), Technological Literacy and the Curriculum (1992), 185.
The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.
'Correlation of Reflexes and the Principle of the Common Path', Report of the Seventy-Fourth Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1904), 730.