Gardner Murphy - It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man

It has become accepted doctrine that we must attempt to study the whole man. Actually we cannot study even a whole tree or a whole guinea pig. But it is a whole tree and a whole guinea pig that have survived and evolved, and we must make the attempt.

- Gardner Murphy

source: Gardner Murphy (1947). “Personality”

topic: Men, Pigs, Tree, Guinea Pigs