Animal Quote by John B. Watson

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

— Edward Thorndike

It is still open to question whether psychology is a natural science, or whether it can be regarded as a science at all.

— Ivan Pavlov

Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and instincts, automatisms…

— Ludwig von Mises

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

— Samuel Alexander

“When experimental psychology limits itself to rats and kittens, squabs and eyelids, philosophy of nature has little opportunity for formation. But when experimental psychology…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon…

— George Trumbull Ladd

“In behaviorism, an infant's talents and abilities didn't matter because there was no such thing as a talent or an ability. Watson had banned…

— Steven Pinker

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

I am convinced that there is no sort of boundary between the living and the mental or between the biological and the psychological. From…

— Jean Piaget

Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such…

— Franz Kafka

Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we…

— Wilhelm Wundt

“Nearly all American behavioral scientists since about 1920, and frequently much earlier, have adapted their study of human behavior to the "scientific" model. Their…

— Frank G. Goble