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IT is disconcerting to find how rarely physical scientists trouble to make themselves familiar with the results of recent psychological investigation, even those results of the more important and far-reaching kind. While the psychologist is well-nigh constrained to follow, in a general way at least, the progress of physical inquiry, the physicist, when he ventures into the psychological field, almost invariably has recourse to a number of obsolete ideas, ideas which have long since been discarded by psychologists themselves.
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HICKS, G. Philosophy and Modern Science. Nature 135, 1035–1036 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/1351035c0
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