Adelbert Ames Quotes

This Democratic supermajority moved quickly once seated in the state legislature. One of their first moves was to impeach and remove Lieutenant Governor Alexander K. Davis, who was Black. They then set their sights on Republican governor Adelbert Ames, demanding that he resign.

Experiments recently conducted by Merle Lawrence (Princeton) and Adelbert Ames (Dartmouth) in the latter’s psychology laboratory at Hanover, N.H., prove that what you see when you look at something depends not so much on what is there as on the assumption you make when you look. Since what we believe to be the “real” physical world is actually only an “assumptive” world, it is not surprising that these experiments prove that what appears to be solid reality is actually the result of “expectations” or “assumptions.