In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.
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In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.
The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.
The bottom line is: You are in control of your reactions to things and how you view things.
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.
Observation and thinking are the two points of departure for all the spiritual striving of man, insofar as he is conscious of such striving. The workings of common sense, as well as the most complicated scientific researches, rest on these two fundamental pillars of our spirit.
In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order.
The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.
The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.
Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.
When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.