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
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.
All sorts of things occur in our consciousness which would mean nothing without survivals of previous experiences.