The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Science fiction - and the correct shortcut is 'sf' - uses actual scientific facts or theories for the source ideas or framework… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
“When you have rejected all the accepted social science methods for understanding the way things work, when you can’t talk straight about… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“Like other progressives, Croly proclaimed a new secular “science,” a political and social science in which politicians, bureaucrats, academics, and experts harness… — Mark R. Levin 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
“At the same time, it has to be recognized that the conditions for this objectivity are not easily won. They cannot rely… — Michael F.D. Young 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
“there is virtually no credible social science evidence to support the idea that violence in societies can be effectively addressed in the… — Gary A. Haugen Copy Share Image
“I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“To me it was plain silly. It is so obvious that life works in terms of species rather than individuals. The individual… — Diana Athill 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
“Answer me this: would you work harder to earn $100 or avoid losing $100? The smiley optimist says the former, but if… — Timothy Ferriss 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
If any student of social science comes to appreciate the case of the Forgotten Man, he will become an unflinching advocate of… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
George Stigler Nobel laureate and a leader of Chicago School was asked why there were no Nobel Prizes awarded in the other… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. — Bertrand Russell 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
I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences. — Noam Chomsky 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
