Economics is a social science, not a physical science.

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential complexity, i.e.…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to be managers,…

— Noam Chomsky

The Tea Party we were told is only about economics; not true. It was always about economics and social issues. They just hid the…

— Andrew Sullivan

Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by…

— Earl Blumenauer

I think that it's difficult to talk about large questions of economics or social policy without understanding the building blocks of society. And those…

— Robert Reich

While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act…

— Richard R. Nelson

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

— Mario Bunge

If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories, having said nothing about…

— David Berlinski

The plain message physical science has for the world at large is this, that were our political and social and moral devices only as…

— George Herbert

Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry…

— Claude Bernard

The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science…

— Blaise Pascal

The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must…

— Antoine Lavoisier

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but…

— Lord Kelvin