Boris Sidis Quotes

Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

The fact that psychology postulates an external material world and studies it in so far as it comes to be reflected in consciousness, points to another postulate which psychology must assume in addition, namely, the existence of an inner world consciousness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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