Experimental Psychology Quotes

• He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.

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  Maria Montessori

  Mean   Psychology   Wish  

  Maria Montessori (2012). “The Montessori Method”, p.29, Courier Corporation

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• Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to abandon exact science, put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world.

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  Carl Jung

  Farewell   Heart   Psychology  

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• It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then to biology, then experimental psychology, and finally on to history. Roughly. These are tendencies, and they tend to distinguish roughly between hard and soft sciences.

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  Noam Chomsky

  Hands   Psychology   Depth  

  Source: libcom.org

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• Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.

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  Wilhelm Wundt

  Psychology   Problem   Metaphysical  

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull craft of experimental psychology.

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  Oswald Spengler

  Practice   Psychology   Crafts  

  "The Decline of the West: Form and actuality".

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