Hans Eysenck Quotes

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

  Hans Eysenck

  Truth, Responsibility, Science

  Hans Eysenck (2017). “Rebel with a Cause”, p.129, Routledge

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• Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship.

  Hans Eysenck

  Prostitution, Psychotherapy

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• 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

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• If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

  Hans Eysenck

  Belief, Ifs

  Hans Jürgen Eysenck (1997). “Repel With a Cause: The Autobiography of Hans Eysenck”, p.119, Transaction Publishers

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• 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

  World, Matter, Facts

  Hans Eysenck (2017). “Rebel with a Cause”, p.129, Routledge

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• 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

  Hans J. Eysenck, Glenn D. Wilson (2013). “The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories (Psychology Revivals)”, p.370, Routledge

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• The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

  Hans Eysenck

  Recovery, Rate, Psychotherapy

  Hans J. Eysenck, Glenn D. Wilson (2013). “The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories (Psychology Revivals)”, p.370, Routledge

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• 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

  Science, Intelligent, Pigs

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• 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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• 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

  Hans Jürgen Eysenck, Glenn Daniel Wilson (1973). “The experimental study of Freudian theories”, Methuen Publishing

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