I remember walking up to those college doors and going in to my college at sixth form and getting the envelope and… — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I think Rodney Stark makes a substantial contribution to the study of early Christianity in posing the kinds of questions that he… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
“La science sociale di XIXe siecle nous a legue un terrible heritage, l'idee que els processus se divisent en trois champs separes:… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“But academics (particularly in social science) seem to distrust each other; they live in petty obsessions, envy, and icy-cold hatreds, with small… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“At the same time, it has to be recognized that the conditions for this objectivity are not easily won. They cannot rely… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share Image
The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
“WE END UP with the following situation: on the one hand, we have a news agenda dominated by reports of the workings… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
“Many network theorists note that human beings differ dramatically from the rational profit maximizer of social science theory. Neuroscientists exploring different regions… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ...… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Leaders are not modest, and more importantly, the extensive social science research on narcissism, self-promotion, and similar constructs shows that these qualities… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
“The latter is useful for predictive purposes only to the extent that the individual participant, in the market relationship, is guided by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd say that the modern social sciences are just showing us why the conditions for implementing Hudud are so demanding, and thus… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the ludus naturae, sorcery begins.No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or make-believe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Teaching social science is at its best meant assisting students in making connections across time and place, both seeking common humanity and… — Mike Rose Copy Share Image
In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Alas, the social science shows something different and more nuanced. We human beings talk to ourselves all the time—so much, in fact,… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
“There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“Perception without judgment is spineless; judgment with no perception is blind. Introversion lacking any extraversion is impractical; extraversion with no introversion is… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
Whether...a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place...depends on one factor: how many brilliant,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do… — William Browne Copy Share Image
One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
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According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
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