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> [For far too long economists have sought to define themselves in terms of their supposedly scientific methods. In fact, those methods rely…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-piketty/for-far-too-long-economists-have-sought-to-define-themselves-in-terms/)

[Thomas Piketty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-piketty/)

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> [After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carroll-quigley/after-years-of-work-in-both-areas-of-study-i-concluded-that-the/)

[Carroll Quigley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carroll-quigley/)

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> [I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-huxley/i-conceive-that-the-leading-characteristic-of-the-nineteenth-century/)

[Thomas Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-huxley/)

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> [Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/percy-williams-bridgman/science-is-what-scientists-do-and-there-are-as-many-scientific/)

[Percy Williams Bridgman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/percy-williams-bridgman/)

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