But psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone kno…

- Raymond Cattell

Plato compared the intellect to a charioteer guiding the powerful horses of the passions, i.e., he gave it both the power of perception and the power…

- Raymond Cattell

The original Upper Paleolithic people would, if they appeared among us today, be called Caucasoid, in the sense that they lacked the particular trait…

- Raymond Cattell

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 pedan…

- Raymond Cattell

[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speake…

- Raymond Cattell

Intelligence is important in psychology for two reasons. First, it is one of the most scientifically developed corners of the subject, giving the stu…

- Raymond Cattell

The only immortality we know of is our children, and in that unfinished story of the acts of lives, which, forever expanding, like waves from a pebbl…

- Raymond Cattell