Science Quotes

"The experiment reveals uncomfortable truths about human nature."

"Authority operates through psychological mechanisms we barely understand."

"Authority is a fundamental organizing principle in human society."

"The experiment demonstrates the malleability of the human will."

"Authority is a psychological fact we cannot ignore."

"The therapist's role is to create conditions for the client's own wisdom to emerge."

"The Stanford Prison Experiment taught us that situational forces are often more powerful than personality traits in determining behavior."

"The study of human nature reveals that we are far more situationally determined than we care to admit."

"The psychology of group dynamics can amplify individual cruelty into collective barbarism."

"The strength of cognitive dissonance depends on the importance of the cognitions involved."

"Dissonance reduction is often unconscious."

"Our brains work to maintain equilibrium."

"Our minds are constantly working behind the scenes to maintain consistency."

"Dissonance reduction is both automatic and deliberate."

"The human mind is a consistency-seeking machine."

"The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side."

"Psychology as I see it is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior; and its practical goal is to help men and women."

"The world of the behaviorist is a world of stimuli and responses, of habit formation, of the conditioned reflex."

"The behaviorist is interested in the body as a machine which can be investigated in terms of physics and chemistry."

"The great revolution in psychology came when we finally began to understand that behavior is measurable and observable."

"The mind is not a mysterious entity; it is simply the sum of our behavioral patterns."

"The objective study of behavior is the only valid approach to understanding human nature."

"The study of consciousness is a waste of time for the scientist."

"The laws of behavior are as universal as the laws of physics."

"We must be willing to study human behavior as objectively as we study animals."

"The study of psychology must be grounded in observable facts."

"Psychology is a natural science, not a branch of philosophy."

"The laws governing behavior are discovered through controlled experimentation."

"Behavior can be predicted and controlled through understanding stimulus and response."

"Every behavior, no matter how complex, can be reduced to stimulus-response pairs."