Leon Eisenberg famous quotes

The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.
-- Leon Eisenberg

#Education #Lasts #Platforms

To believe that man's aggressiveness or territoriality is in the nature of the beast is to mistake some men for all men, contemporary society for all possible societies, and, by a remarkable transformation, to justify what is as what needs must be; social repression becomes a response to, rather than a cause of, human violence. Pessimism about man serves to maintain the status quo. It is a luxury for the affluent, a sop to the guilt of the politically inactive, a comfort to those who continue to enjoy the amenities of privilege.
-- Leon Eisenberg

#Mistake #Believe #Men

ADHD is a prime example of a fictitious disease.
-- Leon Eisenberg

#Example #Disease #Adhd

Psychiatry is all biological and all social. There is no mental function without brain and social context. To ask how much of mind is biological and how much social is as meaningless as to ask how much of the area of a rectangle is due to its width and how much to its height
-- Leon Eisenberg

#Brain #Mind #Height

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.

From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.

I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.

Java isn't platform independent; it is a platform

You ought to serve on the platform you run on.

Not only is your story your truth, your story is going to be the platform and the foundation for everything that's getting ready to happen in your life.

That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.

I normally shun the spotlight, but I don't mind being the platform.