helloooo, book club!

i may have mentioned i've re-established my passion for reading... with that said, i've come across some definitively unique pieces of literature. so, i've decided to share in my new dedication - book club. (perhaps it would more appropriately be titled "quote club," because i plan to share interesting quotes from books i'm reading... but, "book club" is sort of a baller idea. and, i love being baller.)

from theories of developmental psychology by patricia miller... 

"i started out... with considerable uneasiness. i felt that my so-called system was outdated and that it was a waste of time to rehash it and that it would be pretentious now to seek to make it fit any accepted set of prescriptions laid down by the philosophy of science. i have to confess, however, that as i have gone along i have become again more and more involved in it, though i still realize its many weak points. the system may well not standup to any final canons of scientific procedure. but i do not much care. i have liked to think about psychology in ways that have proved congenial to me. since all the sciences, and especially psychology, are still immersed in such tremendous realms of the uncertain and the unknown, the best that any individual scientist, especially any psychologist, can do seems to be to follow his own gleam and his own bent, however inadequate they may be. in fact i suppose that actually this is what we all do. 

in the end, the only sure criterion is to have fun. and i have had fun." 

- e.c. tolman (on his motivations for research, practicing psychology, and living life.)