There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
“ I write for the beauty of the printed word" from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO” — Anthony Antek 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
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
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
...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
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
I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating,… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
“In 1985, an ABC News poll showed that 60 percent of parents worried that their children might be victimized. To this day,… — Chip Heath 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
“A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
“There is something less than fully human in those who have never known a commitment to an idea, who have never risked… — 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
“Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one… — Neil Postman 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
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
Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“Alas, the social science shows something different and more nuanced. We human beings talk to ourselves all the time—so much, in fact,… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“John Kenneth Galbraith, in The Economics of Innocent Fraud, provided a still stronger condemnation of prevailing economic and social science, arguing that… — Anonymous 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
“[F]or a social theorist ignorance is more excusable than vagueness. Other investigators can easily show I am wrong if I am sufficiently… — Arthur Stinchcombe 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
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
