[Da Coyote]

Ah, my standard reply:

Richard Feynman had a hierarchy of the sciences:
Physics is applied mathematics.
Chemistry is applied physics.
Biology is applied chemistry.
Psychology is a bunch of witch doctors

One correction to the source of this - psychology is NOT a science.
And current practitioners deserve nothing other than smirks.

[BBQToadRibs]

“Richard Feynman had a hierarchy of the sciences:
Physics is applied mathematics.
Chemistry is applied physics.
Biology is applied chemistry.
Psychology is a bunch of witch doctors”

Feynman’s (non-science) books are great. (more like personal biographies)

I’d not heard that quote before. Completely fits him.

[onedoug]

Thanks. I borrowed this a few days back and am now glad to be able to attribute it.

[hanamizu]

psychology is NOT a science.

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Most is not, but some is. I majored in psych, but the department where I went to college was strictly ‘rat-runner’ i.e. experimental. The department offered some ‘how do you feel’ courses but they didn’t count for completing the major. We were doing things like dissecting human brains, planting electrodes in rat brains and running rats.

Bottom line: don’t come to me for counseling.

[bboop]

I love Feynman’s hierarchy. Thanks for posting. Leanne Payne, Christian teacher extraordinaire/ Yale Divinity School - taught that Psychology is a ‘religion.’ (Not legit, mind you). There are ‘priests’ with secret knowledge. There are tenets of the faith. There is confession. There is (I believe) secrecy of the confessional. There is no God, of course.