Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
“What you think can determine what you can achieve! So think big to achieve great things!” — Dr. Vivencio Ballano Copy Share Image
“The unpleasant image of the feminists today resembles less the feminists themselves than the image fostered by the interests who so bitterly… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“The AEIs and the Heritages of the world represent the inversion of the progressive faith that social science should shape social policy.” — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
“We need a revolution in academia, with every social science attempting to understand the causes of happiness.” — Richard Layard Copy Share Image
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
“the dominant ways of thinking about culture and cultural change are flawed, for they are based on both specious social science and… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
“Analysis of genomes from around the world establishes that there is indeed a biological reality to race, despite the official statements to… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences… — Otto Scharmer Copy Share Image
“In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“[F]or a social theorist ignorance is more excusable than vagueness. Other investigators can easily show I am wrong if I am sufficiently… — Arthur Stinchcombe Copy Share Image
Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
“The social science fear the radical impulse in literary studies, and over the decades, we in the humanities have trivialized the social… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
Many of our students want to do what they have done and that has made them successful thus far in their lives:… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness.… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
“Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man. — Jon Elster Copy Share Image
The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable. — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the… — Jerome Ravetz Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Millennials think Maxine Waters is God-sent. She's an oracle! She holds the magic truths. She's one of the few Democrats willing to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
My main worry about referendums is that you are taking a very complicated political question that requires knowledge of a bunch of… — Jason Brennan Copy Share Image
“Many years have passed since I first discovered you. You troubled me then. You trouble me now. But mortality, like thunder, rumbles… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
“Babies hold a secret about the human mind that has been hidden for millennia. They are our double. They have a primordial… — Scott R. Garrels Copy Share Image
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Almost no one as I think most leadership books are a joke. They are, as I note in Leadership BS, frequently based… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
“there is virtually no credible social science evidence to support the idea that violence in societies can be effectively addressed in the… — Gary A. Haugen Copy Share Image
It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history,… — Clement Mok Copy Share Image