Abraham Maslow: Quotes about science

Abraham Maslow was American psychologist. Explore interesting quotes on science.

Abraham Maslow: 68 quotes 5 likes

“And I may add that it taught me something about the limitations of the small... orthodox scientist who won't recognize as knowledge, or as reality, any information that doesn't fit into the already existent science.”

Abraham Maslow

As quoted in New Pathways In Psychology (1972) by Colin Wilson
1970s and later

Knowledge , Reality , Science

“[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers … I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.”

Abraham Maslow

Letter to a colleague (Nov 1960). In Colin Wilson, New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution (1972, 2001), 154.
Quotes attributed to Abraham Maslow

Children , Way , Thinking , Science

“The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy. The study of self-actualizing people must be the basis for a more universal science of psychology”

Abraham Maslow book Motivation and Personality

Source: Motivation and Personality (1954), p. 234.

People , Study , Universe , Science