“Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system” HumansPsychologyCivilizationDirectorsLimitsCapacityProductionsDrivenPhysicsServantBranchesBiologyGoodsChemistryTechnologicalMachineryMultiplying Author:Charles A. Beard
“If I am not mistaken, psychology, psychiatry and some branches of sociology, not to speak about the so-called philosophy of history, are even more affected by what I have called the scientistic prejudice, and by specious claims of what science can achieve.” IfsPhilosophySpeakPsychologyAchieveClaimsPrejudiceBranchesAffectedMistakenSociologyPsychiatry Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it.” PeopleArtIdeasPsychologyMysteryStupidUnderstoodExperimentsPsychologicalBranchesAesthetics Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“If Goddess religion is not to become mindless idiocy, we must win clear of tendency of magic to become supertition. Magic - and among its branches I include psychology as its purpose to describe and change consciousness - is an art.” IfsArtPurposeWinningConsciousnessClearPsychologyMagicTendenciesBranchesGoddessMindlessIdiocy Author:Starhawk
“I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.” ActionMoralPsychologyEthicsBranches Book:The Possibility of Altruism Source: The Possibility of Altruism
“Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of chemistry and physics.... The position is taken here that the behavior of man and the behavior of animals must be considered in the same plane.” MenNeedsLittlesNaturalAnimalViewsTakenPsychologyPositionBehaviorPhysicsObjectivesPlanesBranchesChemistryIntrospectionNatural Science Author:John B. Watson
“The three branches of somaesthetics: the analytic study of the body's role in perception, experience, and action and thus in our mental, moral, and social life; the pragmatic study of methodologies to improve our body-mind functioning and thus expand our capacities of self-fashioning; and the practical branch that investigates such pragmatic methods by testing them on our own flesh in concrete experience and practice.” MindSelfPhilosophyBodyActionThreeSocialMoralRolesPracticeStudyPsychologyPerceptionCapacityMethodMedicineFleshSensesPracticalsBranchesConcreteTestingSocial LifePragmaticMethodologyAnalyticsSoma Author:Richard Shusterman