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If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

Hans Eysenck

I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Hans Eysenck

Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they have specialized, are just as ordinary, pigheaded and unreasonable as anybody else.

Hans Eysenck

They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.

Hans Eysenck

There thus appears to be an inverse correlation between recovery and psychotherapy; the more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

Hans Eysenck

Hans Eysenck

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Born: March 4, 1916

Died: September 4, 1997 (aged 81)

Bio: Hans Jürgen Eysenck, PhD, DSc was a German-born psychologist who spent his professional career in Great Britain. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, though he worked in a wide range of areas within psychology.

Known for:

The Biological Basis of Personality (1967)
Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire (1985)
Uses and abuses of psychology (1953)
The structure of human personality (1953)
Check Your Own IQ (1966)

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