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When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.
The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.
Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.
Young people wonder how the adult world can be so boring. The secret is that it is not boring to adults because they have learnt to enjoy simple things like covert malice at one another's expense.
It is easier to study the 'behavior' of rats than people, because rats are smaller and have fewer outside commitments. So modern psychology is mostly about rats
That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.
Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.
People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.
One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.
It is curious that while one's education is the part of one's life over the conditions of which one has least individual control, the results of it are held to brand one irrevocably.
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.
The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.
The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.
If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.
What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to predict events. These equations are, we would argue, the only realities we can be certain of in physics; any other ways we have of thinking about the situation are visual aids or mnemonics which make it easier for beings with our sort of macroscopic experience to use and remember the equations.
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
The charms of money are distinctly under-represented in literature. There are no songs or poems extolling its virtues. This seems on the face of it strange. The claims of money to be celebrated in verse might well seem to be no less than those of faithful dogs, beautiful women, or jugs of wine.
Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.
