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Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man. -- Edward Thorndike
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind. -- James Mark Baldwin
Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men. -- Karen Horney
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology. -- Edward Thorndike
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life. -- Samuel Alexander
Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny. -- Wilhelm Wundt
In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them. -- Charles D. Broad
Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this. -- David Chalmers
The task of physiological psychology remains the same in the analysis of ideas that it was in the investigation of sensations: to act as mediator between the neighbouring sciences of physiology and psychology. -- Wilhelm Wundt
Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view. -- Vir Das
My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others. -- Herbert A. Simon
I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean. -- I. King Jordan
Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes. -- David Chalmers
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing in what I call social psychology, which is sort of an offshoot of anthropology/sociology - looking at a culture as a living organism, why it does what it does. -- George Lucas
The negative attitudes toward the genres - romance, science-fiction, westerns, suspense, etc. - are fallout from the academic world's long-standing fascination with existential philosophy and modern theories of psychology and sociology. -- Jayne Ann Krentz
Psychology is a very unsatisfactory science. -- Wolfgang Kohler
Psychology is the science of mental life -- William James
Interior decorating is a rock-hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs. -- Antonin Scalia
I wished by treating Psychology like a natural science, to help her become one. -- William James
Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period. -- James Mark Baldwin
The science of psychology lies within your own head making complex decisions and showing different attitudes -- Mohammad Ali V
The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology. -- Boris Sidis
Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves. -- William James
Whether science-and indeed civilization in general-can long survive depends upon psychology, that is to say, it depends upon what human beings desire. -- Bertrand Russell
It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all. -- Ivan Pavlov
I don't think there's a specific science you can put on dream psychology. I think that it's up to the, obviously, the individual. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year. -- Dean Koontz
Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself. -- Bob Proctor
Magick, in it's own way, is a science of psychology because it uses the power of the mind to bring forth change in one's life. -- Silver RavenWolf
There is an increasingly pervasive sense that one age is over and a new one is beginning - in business, in politics, in science, in psychology. -- Marianne Williamson
Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the living corporeal individual. -- Boris Sidis
Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features a forgotten science. -- P.D. Ouspensky
I have quite a bit of sympathy for the idea that psychology and cognitive science have much to offer philosophy, and that the reverse is true as well. -- L.A. Paul

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