Celia Green Quotes

Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.

What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.

Psychology more than any other science has had its pseudo-scientific no less than its scientific period.

Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of modern medicine. Genetics owes a huge debt to the humble fruit fly. There's almost no branch of the life sciences, in fact, that hasn't leaned heavily on one animal or another.

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

I was always extremely curious about why people did the things they do.

Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.

I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.

Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

When I hear of anyone walking into a lab and walking out with animals, my heart sings.

Some dogs act like people and some people act like dogs.

Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences of chemistry and physics.... The position is taken here that the behavior of man and the behavior of animals must be considered in the same plane.

There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.

As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores.

I just love thinking about what makes people tick