The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore…

“God’s call will never involve temptation or evil or selfishness.”

— Mike Howerton

What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more pragmatic about…

— Thomas Piketty

The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find…

— Ruth Benedict

After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural…

— Carroll Quigley

“Women have been brought up with the false sense that they have all the options in the world. We don’t understand that the culture…

— Dalma Heyn

“Economics has gained the title Queen of the Social Sciences by choosing solved political problems as its domain.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Algorithm without humanity is mental holocaust.”

— Abhijit Naskar

...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at…

— Thomas Piketty

“The physical sciences capitalize on the lessons of the past, but the social sciences seldom do.”

— W. Cleon Skousen

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

“The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects definable in…

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

“As indicated by our example, methodological nominalism is nowadays fairly generally accepted in the natural sciences. The problems of the social sciences, on the…

— Karl Popper

I got my masters in social sciences and education at Stanford, and initially - this is back in 2002 or 2003 when I graduated…

— Jessica Mendoza