“Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.” RealPhilosophyFoundCareersStudyProgressStudentsLowsIncludingExperimentsAlternativesShockSociologyDrudgerySlownessSociologicalLow Points Author:Paul Nurse
“I regret that I've been so busy with clinical work that I haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies.” AbleStudyHavensRegretBusyExperimentsOutcomesI RegretClinicals Author:Albert Ellis
“We all like to think that the line between good and evil is impermeable--that people who do terrible things, such as commit murder, treason, or kidnapping, are on the evil side of this line, and the rest of us could never cross it. But the Stanford Prison Experiment and the Milgram studies revealed the permeability of that line. Some people are on the good side only because situations have never coerced or seduced them to cross over.” PeopleThinkingEvilSidesLinesSituationStudyTerribleCrossesMurderPrisonExperimentsCommitGood And EvilTerrible ThingsTreasonKidnappingStanfordEvil Side Author:Philip Zimbardo
“In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by a bunch of good people, pitted against an evil-producing situation. The question is, does the goodness of the people overwhelm the bad situation, or does the bad situation overwhelm the good people?” PeopleDoeHumanityEvilSituationStudyDramaGoodnessPrisonExperimentsBunchTraditionalGreekGood PeopleStanfordBad SituationsGreek Drama Author:Philip Zimbardo
“The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and robbers, it was an experiment that anyone could quit at any time and minimal safeguards were in place. You must distinguish hind sight from fore sight, knowing what you know now after the study is quite different from what most people imagined might happen before the study began.” PeopleKnowsHumansDifferentMightHappensKidsKnowingStudySubjectsCollegeResearchSightPrisonQuittingExperimentsCopCommitteesApprovedRobbersStanfordKids PlayingCops And Robbers Author:Philip Zimbardo
“The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine.” PeopleFirstsStudyMinesFirst TimePrisonExperimentsHeatSpokesEthicalStanleyStanfordUnethical Author:Philip Zimbardo
“I have been induced to adopt this course by a desire that my readers should be taught to think as well as to experiment, and thus be qualified at an early part of their study to discriminate between the true and the false, and acquire the facts of the science without being mystified by its fictions.” ThinkingShouldWellsHas BeensFactsDesireCoursesFictionStudyTaughtReaderExperimentsAcquireQualified Book:Chemical Recreations: A Compendium of Experimental Chemistry Source: Chemical Recreations: A Compendium of Experimental Chemistry
“If you look across a host of measures at adoption studies, fraternal v. identical twin studies, twins-raised-apart studies, the history of early childhood intervention research, naturally-occurring experiments, differences between societies, changes over history, and so forth, you tend to come up with nature and nurture as being about equally important: maybe fifty-fifty. The glass is roughly half-full and half-empty.” IfsWorldImportantRealDifferencesHalfStudyChildhoodResearchEmptyRaisedGlassesCome UpExperimentsOutcomesFiftyReal WorldHostAdoptionTwinsNurtureInterventionIdenticalEarly ChildhoodHalf FullHalf EmptyFraternalIdentical Twin Author:Steve Sailer
“most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control of the situation rather than surrendering himself to the situation, as one must in studying human beings as they actually live.” PeopleFeelsHumansKindScienceHuman BeingsSituationStudyScientistExperiments Book:Blkberry Winter Source: Blkberry Winter
“The system - the American one, at least - is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.” MindHas BeensGirlNationsSportsEducationStudySubjectsCollegePlanetsBrotherSaintNobleExperimentsTreatedGraduatesMagnificentJaneUtopiaUtopianLike HerKindergartenAustenTheresa Book:The province of the heart Source: The province of the heart
“It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.” LongTwoTodayCertainImaginationStudyAchievementDiscoveryFundamentalsFruitCarefulWorthyIntellectExperimentsFeaturesMemorableCharacteristicsThinkerMagnificentMotorMagnetGreat AchievementEmbryosDiscsRotating Author:Nikola Tesla