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It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

Noam Chomsky
Personality, Psychology, Might
Noam Chomsky (1988). “Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures”, p.159, MIT Press

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

Noam Chomsky
Sleep, Ideas, Psychology
Syntactic Structures ch. 2 (1957)

It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then to biology, then experimental psychology, and finally on to history. Roughly. These are tendencies, and they tend to distinguish roughly between hard and soft sciences.

Noam Chomsky
Hands, Psychology, Depth
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Peter Kropotkin was surely on the left. He was one of the founders of what is now called 'sociobiology' or 'evolutionary psychology' with his book Mutual Aid, arguing that human nature had evolved in ways conducive to the communitarian anarchism that he espoused.

Noam Chomsky
Book, Psychology, Way
Source: libcom.org

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