Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses, except the intellect itself.
Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuerit in sensu, nisi intellectus ipse.
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Wilhelm Wundt
German physiologist (1832-1920). Founded the first psychology lab at Leipzig in 1879, marking psychology's birth as an independent science. Father of experimental psychology and teacher of America's first psychologists.
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