“I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.” MenHumansPersonsBeliefViewsPowerfulAcceptingSubjectsAuthorityBehaviorCapacityIdealsDignityCommandRejectsConceptionProvidingAffirmationLaboratoryHuman Dignity Author:Stanley Milgram
“Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war.” MenMindWarStatesNextPreparedTechniqueState Of MindClassroomLaboratoryMaking PeacePeace War Book:The Long-Legged House Source: The Long-Legged House
“I can conceive few human states more enviable than that of the man to whom, panting in the foul laboratory, or watching for his life under the tropic forest, Isis shall for a moment lift her sacred veil, and show him, once and for ever, the thing he dreamed not of; some law, or even mere hint of a law, explaining one fact; but explaining with it a thousand more, connecting them all with each other and with the mighty whole, till order and meaning shoots through some old Chaos of scattered observations.” MenHumansI CanStatesWholeMomentsFactsShowsLawScienceOrderHe ManThousandSacredMereChaosForestsObservationLiftsVeilsConnectingExplainingIsisLaboratoryHintsFoulMicroscopes Book:Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A. Source: Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.