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Anthony Standen Quotes: Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were before.
         

Psychologists, like other scientists, pride themselves on being extremely modern, and therefore much better than any group of people that ever were before.


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Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the other extreme.

Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the other extreme.



There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.



Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.

Psychologists pay lip service to the scientific method, and use it whenever it is convenient; but when it isn't they make wild leaps of their uncontrolled fancy.



Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.

Physical scientists probably deserve the reputation they enjoy for incorruptibility and unswerving devotion to pure truth. The reason for this is that it is not worth while to bribe them.



Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.

Physicists, being in no way different from the rest of the population, have short memories for what is inconvenient.



Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.

Such instances of the almost infinite unpredictability of man are known to social scientists, but they are no more affected by them than the asylum inmate is by being told that he is not Napoleon.



Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.

Insight is not the same as scientific deduction, but even at that it may be more reliable than statistics.



The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view.

The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view.



[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.

[Scientists] define these [terms] in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.



But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull.... Everything has to be expressed in utterly impersonal terms.

But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull.... Everything has to be expressed in utterly impersonal terms.





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