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Ernest Jones
(1 Jan 1879 - 11 Feb 1958)
Welsh psychoanalyst.
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Science Quotes by Ernest Jones (3 quotes)
[Freud's] great strength, though sometimes also his weakness, was the quite extraordinary respect he had for the singular fact... When he got hold of a simple but significant fact he would feel, and know, that it was an example of something general or universal, and the idea of collecting statistics on the matter was quite alien to him.
— Ernest Jones
The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1953), Vol 1, 96-7.
His mother’s favorite, he [Freud] possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to do so, though for long the direction this would take remained uncertain.
— Ernest Jones
In The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud: The Formative Years and the Great Discoveries, 1856-1900 (1957), 15.
Man's chief enemy and danger is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him.
— Ernest Jones
In The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1957), Vol. 3, 441.
See also:
- 1 Jan - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Jones's birth.
- Ernest Jones: Freud's Alter Ego, by Vincent Brome. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
