Sigmund Freud Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Science, Collective Unconscious

  The Interpretation of Dreams ch. 7 (1900)

• Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

  Sigmund Freud

  Strength, Death, Spiritual

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

• In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Psychology, Analysis

• When we attempt to imagine death, we perceive ourselves as spectators.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Religion, Imagine

• When someone abuses me I can defend myself, but against praise I am defenceless.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Abuse, Praise

• The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly not had time enough yet for these great achievements. Science is very young--a human activity which developed late.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Achievement, Unjust

  Sigmund Freud, Angela Richards (1964). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

• It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one.

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, Mistake, Believe

  Sigmund freud (1975). “Gen Intro Psycho”, Pocket

• It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that in physics atoms which were yesterday assumed to be square are now assumed to be round is exploited with unjustified tendentiousness by all who are hungry for faith; so long as physics extends our dominion over nature, these changes ought to be a matter of complete indifference to you.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Yesterday, Squares

  Sigmund Freud, Oskar Pfister (1963). “Psycho-analysis and Faith: The Letters of Sigmund Freud & Oskar Pfister”

• No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Giving, Would Be

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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