[ADS-L] Maslow's grea t quotation

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In a message dated 5/24/07 1:38:30 PM, goranson at DUKE.EDU writes:


> >> According to the staggeringly informative Yale Book of Quotations, the
> >> quotation is the following:
> >>
> >> It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat 
> everything
> >> as if it were a nail.
> >>        Abraham Maslow, The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance ch. 2
> >> (1966)
> >>
> >> Fred Shapiro
> 
> Small comments. FWIW, I looked for earlier citations, but found none. The
> sentence (p.15-16) begins "I imagine it is tempting...." I found no 
> indication
> in the book (acknowledgements, notes, etc.) that he is consciously quoting
> someone earlier. Elsewhere he uses quotation marks relatively frequently. 
> The
> text above this mentions an automatic car washing machine that is quite
> good at
> that job. "But it could do _only_ that, and everything else that got into 
> its
> clutches was treated as if it were an automobile to be washed." The sentence
> following our quotation: "In a word, I had either to give up my questions, 
> or
> else to invent new ways of answering them." I heard Maslow speak
> decades ago at
> Brandeis; an estimable man, I think.
> 
> Stephen Goranson
> http://www.duke.edu/~goranson
> 
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