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Accordingly the former are more intelligent and
capable of learning than those which cannot remember.Such as cannot hear sounds (as
the bee, and any other similar type of creature) are intelligent, but
cannot learn; those only are capable of learning which possess this
sense in addition to the faculty of memory.Thus the other animals live by impressions and
memories, and have but a small share of experience; but the human race
lives also by art and reasoning.It is from memory that men acquire experience,
because the numerous memories of the same thing eventually produce the
effect of a single experience.
Aristotle. Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vols.17, 18, translated by Hugh Tredennick. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1933, 1989.
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