“I never applied.”

— Donna Strickland

When asked in interview with the BBC why she had won a Nobel Prize, but was not yet a full professor, in [Leaf, Clifton, She Just Won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Why Is She Still a Junior Professor?, http://fortune.com/2018/10/02/donna-strickland-nobel-prize-professor/, 5 October 2018, Fortune]

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Canadian physicist, 2018 Nobel prize winner 1959

Henry Savile Clarke (1841–1893)

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“Another tenet of randori is to apply just the right amount of force — never too much, never too little.”

Kanō Jigorō (1860–1938) Japanese educator and judoka

Source: Kodokan Judo (1882), p. 23
Context: Another tenet of randori is to apply just the right amount of force — never too much, never too little. All of us know of people who have failed to accomplish what they set out to do because of not properly gauging the amount of effort required. At one extreme, they fall short of the mark; at the other, they do not know when to stop.

“For applied psychology, whether American or German, it never had the slightest appeal, as is shown by the figures for the relevant journals, Zeitschrift fiir angewandte Psychologie, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Educational Psychology.”

Kurt Danziger (1926) German academic

Applied psychology had committed itself to knowledge goals that were unlikely to be advanced by the kind of investigative practice associated with Wundt's laboratory. What it was after was knowledge that could be quickly utilized by agencies of social control so as to make their work more efficient and more rationally defensible.
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Constructing the subject: Historical origins of psychological research. 1994