It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical li…

- Alfred Binet

A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and re…

- Alfred Binet

Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates no…

- Alfred Binet

Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion and passion

- Alfred Binet

Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... Wha…

- Alfred Binet

I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; th…

- Alfred Binet

Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.

- Alfred Binet

A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectu…

- Alfred Binet

The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore can…

- Alfred Binet