The best doctors are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
—English proverb
22
***
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult
than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
—Paul Dudley White
23
What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new is not true.
—Hermann Ebbinghaus, 1873
[Modern psychology] appears to be the sickly offspring of average common sense.
—Ludwig Klages, 1929
The psychiatrist unfailingly recognizes the madman by his excited behavior on being
incarcerated.
—Karl Kraus
24
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.
—Samuel Goldwyn
25
Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.
—Peter De Vries, 1973
***
[The economist] must be suspicious of any direct light that the past is said to throw on the
problems of the present.
—Alfred Marshall, 1925
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
—Ezra Solomon, 1984
26
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday
didn’t happen today.
—Laurence J. Peter, 1977
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
—Anonymous
27
22
Essentially, a succinct version of an earlier (circa 1449) line by John Lydgate.
23
As quoted, without a date, by William Fitzgibbon in 1972.
24
As quoted, without a date, by many, starting perhaps with Thomas Szasz in 1976.
25
As attributed in 1948; it is suspected that Lillian Hellman was the real author.
26
Frequently misattributed to John Kenneth Galbraith.
27
Frequently misattributed to George Bernard Shaw.
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—English proverb
22
***
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult
than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
—Paul Dudley White
23
What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new is not true.
—Hermann Ebbinghaus, 1873
[Modern psychology] appears to be the sickly offspring of average common sense.
—Ludwig Klages, 1929
The psychiatrist unfailingly recognizes the madman by his excited behavior on being
incarcerated.
—Karl Kraus
24
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined.
—Samuel Goldwyn
25
Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.
—Peter De Vries, 1973
***
[The economist] must be suspicious of any direct light that the past is said to throw on the
problems of the present.
—Alfred Marshall, 1925
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
—Ezra Solomon, 1984
26
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday
didn’t happen today.
—Laurence J. Peter, 1977
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
—Anonymous
27
22
Essentially, a succinct version of an earlier (circa 1449) line by John Lydgate.
23
As quoted, without a date, by William Fitzgibbon in 1972.
24
As quoted, without a date, by many, starting perhaps with Thomas Szasz in 1976.
25
As attributed in 1948; it is suspected that Lillian Hellman was the real author.
26
Frequently misattributed to John Kenneth Galbraith.
27
Frequently misattributed to George Bernard Shaw.
On Sciences and Technologies
49