"These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test."

"A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness."

"One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased."

"Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist."

"Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission."

"You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart."

"A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin."

"My father and I made genetics history. We were the first African-Americans and the first father and son anywhere to have their genomes sequenced."