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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

Hans Eysenck
Truth, Responsibility, Science
Hans Eysenck (2017). “Rebel with a Cause”, p.129, Routledge

Psychotherapy is the prostitution of friendship.

Hans Eysenck
Prostitution, Psychotherapy

If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.

Hans Eysenck
Winning, People, Silence

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Hans Eysenck
World, Matter, Facts
Hans Eysenck (2017). “Rebel with a Cause”, p.129, Routledge

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

Hans Eysenck
Belief, Ifs
Hans Jürgen Eysenck (1997). “Repel With a Cause: The Autobiography of Hans Eysenck”, p.119, Transaction Publishers

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

Hans Eysenck
Recovery, Rate, Psychotherapy
Hans J. Eysenck, Glenn D. Wilson (2013). “The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories (Psychology Revivals)”, p.370, Routledge

The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

Hans Eysenck
Recovery, Rate, Psychotherapy
Hans J. Eysenck, Glenn D. Wilson (2013). “The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories (Psychology Revivals)”, p.370, Routledge

Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.

Hans Eysenck
Science, Intelligent, Pigs

It is generally agreed by philosophers of science that important contributions which have a revolutionary impact on science are often methodologically inadequate, reveal many anomalies, and may indeed be factually erroneous.

Hans Eysenck
Impact, Important, Anomalies

They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.

Hans Eysenck
Mean, Years, Two
Hans Jürgen Eysenck, Glenn Daniel Wilson (1973). “The experimental study of Freudian theories”, Methuen Publishing

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