Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Lewis Terman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American psychologist Lewis Terman.
Last updated on April 22, 2025.
Lewis Terman

Lewis Madison Terman was an American psychologist and author. He was noted as a pioneer in educational psychology in the early 20th century at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He is best known for his revision of the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales and for initiating the longitudinal study of children with high IQs called the Genetic Studies of Genius. He was a prominent eugenicist and was a member of the Human Betterment Foundation. He also served as president of the American Psychological Association. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Terman as the 72nd most cited psychologist of the 20th century, in a tie with G. Stanley Hall.

It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws are known, the door of the future will in a measure be opened; determination of the child's present status will enable us to forecast what manner of adult he will become.
We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated. — © Lewis Terman
We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.
There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.
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