Raymond Cattell

"Psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands'."

"The first way in which one notices that a sentiment structure is different from an erg is that the emotional qualities which enter it are very diverse, whereas in an erg they are all of one quality, e…"

"Dominance... is shown in assertive, independent, confident and stubborn behaviour."

"Overt anxiety... that part of anxiety of which the individual is aware and ready to speak."

"Psychology appeared to be a jungle of confusing, conflicting, and arbitrary concepts. These pre-scientific theories doubtless contained insights which still surpass in refinement those depended upon b…"

"The danger is not only that politicians and private institutions with axes to grind will find tame or corruptible social scientists to support their positions. The greater danger which recent experien…"

"Of course, science lives by confusing theories, but what were accepted as 'theories' even by the many professional psychologists and psychiatrists were very poor limitations of what physical scientist…"

"A taxonomy of abilities, like a taxonomy anywhere else in science, is apt to strike a certain type of impatient student as a gratuitous orgy of pedantry. Doubtless, compulsions to intellectual tidines…"