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Abraham Harold Maslow
(1 Apr 1908 - 8 Jun 1970)
American psychologist.
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Science Quotes by Abraham Harold Maslow (3 quotes)
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
— Abraham Harold Maslow
Toward a Psychology of Being (1962, 1999), 5.
Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature—she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children—I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
— Abraham Harold Maslow
Quoted in Colin Wilson,New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution (1972, 2001), 155-56.
[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 Harold Maslow
Letter to a colleague (Nov 1960). In Colin Wilson, New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution (1972, 2001), 154.
See also:
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1 Apr - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Maslow's birth. 
The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, by Abraham H. Maslow. - book suggestion.
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan
