Harry Harlow quotes

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)
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
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
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
The responses of the baby monkey are very similar to those of a human baby.
Harry Harlow
So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in their 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
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
Not even in our most devious dreams could we have designed a surrogate as evil as these real monkey mothers were.
Harry Harlow
Apathetic Annie was complacent and serene Though suffering from paresis, Consumption and gangrene But Annie did not really care Though life was nearly gone For Annie had a tumor of the diencephalon.
Harry Harlow
Because that's how it feels when you're depressed.
Harry Harlow
Harry Harlow and his colleagues go on torturing their nonhuman primates decade after decade, invariably proving what we all knew in advance: that social creatures can be destroyed by destroying their social ties. (Harry Harlow)
I have been married twice, but both of my wives have been too bright to be sucked in by women's lib.
Harry Harlow
Speaking is the one trait in which woman is superior to man. Consider what happens when a couple argues. The man tries to talk to the woman. The stupid fool - he can never win.
Harry Harlow