Psychology has a long past, yet only a short history.
Die Psychologie hat eine lange Vergangenheit, doch nur eine kurze Geschichte.

Psychologists
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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Source: Abriss der Psychologie (心理学の概要、1908年)Verified
Hermann Ebbinghaus's Other Quotes
All sorts of things occur in our consciousness which would mean nothing without survivals of previous experiences.
With any considerable number of repetitions, a suitable distribution of them over a space of time is decidedly more advantageous than the massing of them at a single time.
I owe everything to you.