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Hans J. Eysenck
(4 Mar 1916 - 4 Sep 1997)
German-English psychologist whose research focused in the fields of personality, neurosis, and experimental psychology with an interest in parapsychology and astrology. He wrote over 40 books and 800 articles on personality and its relation to various social phenomena.
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Science Quotes by Hans J. Eysenck (1 quote)
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.
— Hans J. Eysenck
Sense and Nonsense in Psychology (1957), 108.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
