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Not even in our most devious dreams could we have designed a surrogate as evil as these real monkey mothers were.

— Harry Harlow

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as quoted in Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection, by Deborah Blum, Perseus Publishing, 2002

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Because that's how it feels when you're depressed.

In our study of psychopathology, we began as sadists trying to produce abnormality. Today, we are psychiatrists trying to achieve normality and equanimity.

The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation, and the little we write about it has been written better by poets and novelists.

In the first place I have an enormous regard for common sense. Any time we discover some great thing and it contradicts common sense, we better go back to the laboratory and check it.

The only thing I care about is whether a monkey will turn out a property I can publish. I don't have any love for them. Never have. I don't really like animals. I despise cats. I hate dogs. How could you like monkeys?

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