Psychology has a long past, yet only a short history.

Die Psychologie hat eine lange Vergangenheit, doch nur eine kurze Geschichte.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Hermann Ebbinghaus

German psychologist (1850-1909) who turned memory into laboratory science. Using himself as sole subject with 2,300 nonsense syllables, his 1885 On Memory revealed the forgetting curve.

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