Science Quotes by Boris Sidis

Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the very skies…

— Boris Sidis

The main source of psychopathic diseases is the fundamental instinct of fear with its manifestations, the feeling of anxiety, anguish, and worry.

— Boris Sidis

Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

— Boris Sidis

Psychology is the science of psychic states both as to content and form, regarded from an objective standpoint, and brought in relation to the…

— Boris Sidis

Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.

— Boris Sidis

The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of…

— Boris Sidis

The psycho-physiological hypothesis is both inductively and deductively the sine qua non of the science of psychology.

— Boris Sidis

Science is the description of phenomena and the formulation of their relations.

— Boris Sidis

The course of evolution is to a greater integration of similarly functioning ganglia.

— Boris Sidis

The general tendency of evolution is from structure to function, from bondage to freedom of the individual elements.

— Boris Sidis

The principle of recognition of evil under all its guises is at the basis of the true education of man.

— Boris Sidis

Suggestibility varies as the amount of disaggregation, and inversely as the unification of consciousness.

— Boris Sidis