While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think… — Richard R. Nelson 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
“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
Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others. — Mario Bunge 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
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. — Wolfgang Kohler Copy Share Image
“What you think can determine what you can achieve! So think big to achieve great things!” — Dr. Vivencio Ballano Copy Share Image
Almost no one as I think most leadership books are a joke. They are, as I note in Leadership BS, frequently based… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context… — Steven Sinofsky 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
“A little hypocrisy and a little compromise oils the wheels of social life” — Gregory Bateson 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
“It may be in the ubiquitous phenomenon of terrorism that one can most easily see how universal emotional processes transcend the conventional… — Edwin H. Friedman 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
“The entire destiny of modern linguistics is in fact determined by Saussure's inaugural act through which he separates the ‘external’ elements of… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the… — Seth Gordon 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
I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
“Babies hold a secret about the human mind that has been hidden for millennia. They are our double. They have a primordial… — Scott R. Garrels 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
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
When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness.… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image