without being sure of something, we can not begin to think about everything elses — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
“The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.” — M.D. Birmingham Copy Share Image
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to… — Edgar Douglas Adrian Copy Share Image
The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The SSN Institute will be expanded in areas such as liberal arts, social sciences, natural sciences, communications. — Shiv Nadar Copy Share Image
The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
“Life's lessons are designed that we would rise from 'The Fall' (or our failures) and be restored to our Divine nature.” — Maya Emmett Copy Share Image
“Economics has gained the title Queen of the Social Sciences by choosing solved political problems as its domain.” — Daron Acemoğlu Copy Share Image
The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
I got my masters in social sciences and education at Stanford, and initially - this is back in 2002 or 2003 when… — Jessica Mendoza Copy Share Image
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
“To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more… — Thomas Piketty 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
The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I… — Dean Wareham Copy Share Image
“To gauge the extent of society’s victory in the modern age, its early substitution of behavior for action and its eventual substitution… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The social sciences are obsessed by epistemological questioning in a way that no science, no real science is. You never have a… — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
“The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects… — Friedrich A. von Hayek Copy Share Image
“Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that… — Dalma Heyn 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 my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price.” — John Lewis Gaddis 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 physical sciences capitalize on the lessons of the past, but the social sciences seldom do.” — W. Cleon Skousen Copy Share Image
“your book is full of piquant ideas on how sexual assault is practiced by many people but in African countries the issue… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“As indicated by our example, methodological nominalism is nowadays fairly generally accepted in the natural sciences. The problems of the social sciences,… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the… — Barney Frank 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
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
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
I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That… — Herbert A. Simon 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
