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"Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period."
"Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind."
"While most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in a straight line uncorrected by anything. But the habit of forming conclusions, as they can really be formed in more fruitful fields, is so fixed in the scientific mind that it cannot resist talking like this. It talks about the idea suggested by one scrap of bone as if it were something like the aeroplane which is constructed at last out of whole scrapheaps of scraps of metal. The trouble with the professor of the prehistoric is that he cannot scrap his scrap. The marvellous and triumphant aeroplane is made out of a hundred mistakes. The student of origins can only make one mistake and stick to it."
"It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception."
Explore more quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
"Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration."
"It usually takes 100 years to make a law and then after it's done its work it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it."
"Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top."
"God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how."
"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."
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