Hugo Münsterberg

"The knowledge of nature and the mastery of nature have always belonged together."

"The inner labor, the inner values, and the inner difficulties and frictions are too often unknown to those who decide for a vocation, and they are unable to correlate those essential factors of the li…"

"Only the subtle psychological individual analysis can overcome the superficial prejudices of group psychology."

"The theorists of scientific management seem to think that the most subtle methods are indispensable for physical measurements, but for psychological inquiry nothing but a kind of intuition is necessar…"

"Ethics could teach us only those purposes and ideals. If the teachers seeks insight into the means by which the aim can be reached, into the facts by which the child can be molded, his way must lead f…"

"Our aim is to sketch the outlines of a new science which is to intermediate between the modern laboratory psychology and the problems of economics: the psychological experiment is systematically to be…"

"Applied psychology can, therefore, speak the language of an exact science ill its own field, independent of economic opinions and debatable partisan interests."

"WE have placed our psychotechnical interest at the service of economic tasks... The purpose before us was to find for every economic occupation the best-fitted personality, both in the interest of eco…"