Hans Eysenck famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
-- Hans Eysenck

#World #Scientist
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
-- Hans Eysenck

#Matter #Facts #World
If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.
-- Hans Eysenck

#Belief
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.
-- Hans Eysenck

#Intelligent #Pigs #Fields
If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.
-- Hans Eysenck

#Winning #People #Silence
The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
-- Hans Eysenck

#Recovery #Rate #Psychotherapy
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
-- Hans Eysenck

#Mean #Years #Two
There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.
-- Hans Eysenck

#Recovery #Rate #Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship.
-- Hans Eysenck

#Prostitution #Psychotherapy
It is generally agreed by philosophers of science that important contributions which have a revolutionary impact on science are often methodologically inadequate, reveal many anomalies, and may indeed be factually erroneous.
-- Hans Eysenck

#Impact #Important #Anomalies

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