“ I write for the beauty of the printed word" from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO” — Anthony Antek Copy Share Image
“A little hypocrisy and a little compromise oils the wheels of social life” — Gregory Bateson 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
“The AEIs and the Heritages of the world represent the inversion of the progressive faith that social science should shape social policy.” — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“The unpleasant image of the feminists today resembles less the feminists themselves than the image fostered by the interests who so bitterly… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the… — Jerome Ravetz Copy Share Image
“Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous” — Anonymous 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
“We need a revolution in academia, with every social science attempting to understand the causes of happiness.” — Richard Layard Copy Share Image
Millennials think Maxine Waters is God-sent. She's an oracle! She holds the magic truths. She's one of the few Democrats willing to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Many years have passed since I first discovered you. You troubled me then. You trouble me now. But mortality, like thunder, rumbles… — Caryl Phillips Copy Share Image
My main worry about referendums is that you are taking a very complicated political question that requires knowledge of a bunch of… — Jason Brennan 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
It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Analysis of genomes from around the world establishes that there is indeed a biological reality to race, despite the official statements to… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I always believed that social science was a progressive profession because it was the powerful who had the most to hide about… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
“Many network theorists note that human beings differ dramatically from the rational profit maximizer of social science theory. Neuroscientists exploring different regions… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
“WE END UP with the following situation: on the one hand, we have a news agenda dominated by reports of the workings… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
“Although the social science construction of reality tends to emphasize how families differ from one another, I began to see that knowledge… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. — Isaac Asimov 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
I'd say that the modern social sciences are just showing us why the conditions for implementing Hudud are so demanding, and thus… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
“The latter is useful for predictive purposes only to the extent that the individual participant, in the market relationship, is guided by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ...… — E. O. Wilson 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
The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science… — Daniel H. Pink 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
...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
“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