“The first reason for psychology's failure to understand what people are and how they act, is that clinicians and psychiatrists, who are generally the theoreticians on these matters, have essentially made up myths without any evidence to support them; the second reason for psychology's failure is that personality theory has looked for inner traits when it should have been looking for social context.” PeopleShouldFirstsHas BeensMadeMatterReasonSocialSupportPsychologyTheoryPersonalityEvidenceShould HaveMythTraitsShould Have BeenPsychiatristClinicians Author:Naomi Weisstein
“Someone once noted that Hugh Everett should have been declared a "national resource," and given all the time and resources he needed to develop new theories.” ShouldHas BeensGivenTheoryNeededResourcesShould HaveShould Have Been Author:Hugh Everett III
“Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs concerning the processes of understanding, learning, and thinking, among other things. One of the difficulties has been that such theory as has been developed has been based primarily upon studies of behavior of rats and pigeons. As someone has said, some of the theory thus developed has been an insult even to the rat.” ThinkingNeedsShouldHas BeensSaidProcessUnderstandingPracticeStudyPsychologyInformationTheoryDependsBehaviorShould HaveDifficultyChiefsInsultRatsPigeons Author:J. P. Guilford
“I've definitely seen things that have made me laugh. And there's some things that are really smart and like, "Oh man, we should have done that, that's really cool!" And there's some things that are like, "Oh, do they know something? I don't know!" So there's the whole variety of things that are in those theories. But they're cool.” KnowsMenShouldMadeDoneWholeLaughingTheorySmartShould HaveVarietyReally CoolReally Smart Author:Dan Trachtenberg
“Just take the lack of presence of F1 in the United States. In theory - and logically - you would have an East Coast Grand Prix, a West Coast Grand Prix, and I think you should have a street race in Detroit - it is still the motor capital of the US. You stay in the US for four weeks and could have two to three races, certainly two.” ThinkingShouldStillsTwoStatesThreeUnitedRaceUnited StatesFourWeekStreetsTheoryShould HaveWestEastCoastMotorDetroitWest CoastEast CoastGrand Prix Author:Martin Sorrell