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Harry Harlow
8 quotes
“Love is a wondrous state, deep, tender, and rewarding. Because of its intimate and personal nature it is regarded by some as an improper topic for experimental research. But, whatever our personal feelings may be, our assigned missions as psychologists is to analyze all facets of human and animal behavior into their component variables. So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in this mission. The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation, and the little we write about it has been written better by poets and novelists.”
Harry Harlow (1905–1981) first seen 1958 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: originally published in "The Nature of Love", American Psychologist, volume 13, number 12, December 1958
“In our study of psychopathology, we began as sadists trying to produce abnormality. Today, we are psychiatrists trying to achieve normality and equanimity.”
Harry Harlow (1905–1981) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harlow, H.F., Harlow, M.K., Suomi, S.J. From thought to therapy: lessons from a primate laboratory. 538-549; American Scientist. vol. 59. no. 5. September–October; 1971.
“In the first place I have an enormous regard for common sense. Any time we discover some great thing and it contradicts common sense, we better go back to the laboratory and check it.”
Harry Harlow (1905–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in interview with , as cited in Love According To Harry Harlow, t the Association for Psychological Science's Observer, by Deborah Blum, January 2012.
“The only thing I care about is whether a monkey will turn out a property I can publish. I don't have any love for them. Never have. I don't really like animals. I despise cats. I hate dogs. How could you like monkeys?”
Harry Harlow (1905–1981) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Pittsburgh Press-Roto, 1974. Quoted in Blum, Deborah. The Monkey Wars. Oxford University Press, 1994, p. 92.
“The effects of 6 months of total social isolation were so devastating and debilitating that we had assumed initially that 12 months of isolation would not produce any additional decrement. This assumption proved to be false; 12 months of isolation almost obliterated the animals socially.”
Harry Harlow (1905–1981) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Total social isolation in monkeys," from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, 1965.
“Not even in our most devious dreams could we have designed a surrogate as evil as these real monkey mothers were.”
Harry Harlow (1905–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as quoted in Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection, by Deborah Blum, Perseus Publishing, 2002
“Because that's how it feels when you're depressed.”
Harry Harlow (1905–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: as quoted in Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection, by Deborah Blum, Perseus Publishing, 2002
“Apathetic Annie was complacent and serene Though suffering from , and But Annie did not really care Though life was nearly gone For Annie had a tumor of the .”
Harry Harlow (1905–1981) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: an attempt to describe symptoms in poetry, while studying medicine at in 1924