Not who you're looking for? Others named Alexander Bain: British clockmaker · Scottish philosopher and educationalist (1818–1903) · Screen figure
“Disinterestedness is as great a puzzle and paradox as ever. Indeed, strictly speaking, it is a species of irrationality, or insanity, as regards the individual’s self; a contradiction of the most essential nature of a sentient being, which is to move to pleasure and from pain”
“The arguments for the two substances - mind and body - have, we believe, entirely lost their validity; they are no longer compatible with ascertained science and clear thinking. One substance with two sets of attributes, two sides (a physical and a mental), a double-faced unity, would appear to comply with all the exigencies of the case.”
“The method of arithmetical teaching]] is perhaps the best understood of any of the methods concerned with elementary studies.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
