Science Quotes

"The human being is a machine that responds predictably to stimuli."

"The scientific study of behavior requires objectivity and measurement."

"The laws of human behavior are as fixed as the laws of nature."

"Psychology should be grounded in physics and chemistry, not philosophy."

"We can predict human behavior if we understand the conditioning that produced it."

"All psychological phenomena can be explained through stimulus and response."

"Psychology must be as objective as physics or chemistry."

"Psychology without experimentation is not psychology."

"Behavior is the only proper subject matter of psychology."

"The laws of conditioning apply to all organisms, human and animal alike."

"Psychology is the study of behavior, nothing more and nothing less."

"Behavior is determined by the interaction of organism and environment."

"We should study human beings as objectively as we study laboratory rats."

"Human behavior follows laws as predictable as the laws of nature."

"The study of psychology is the study of measurable behavior."

"Psychology has finally become a true science."

"The laws of human behavior can be discovered through experimentation."

"I was disturbed by the very high levels of obedience I found in my experiments and wanted to understand it better."

"The appearance of scientific legitimacy can enhance the power of authority over individuals."

"Psychology must become a science of observable behavior, not speculation about the mind."

"The experimental method reveals what we would rather not know about ourselves."

"The laboratory is merely a mirror held up to the social world we inhabit."

"Science teaches us humility before the complexity of human nature."

"The experiment strips away our pretenses and reveals what we truly believe."

"The laboratory reveals that perception is not neutral; it is shaped by context and company."

"The line between observer and participant blurs when we study human cruelty."

"The Stanford Prison Experiment remains controversial because its findings challenge our self-image."

"The Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrates that psychological research can reveal dark truths."

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

"Science is the honest examination of reality, regardless of what we wish to believe."