“Social science now tells us that if we can take indigent girls between the ages of 10 and 14 and give them… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct — Kathryn Schulz 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
The great shift... is the movement away from the value-laden languages of... the "humanities," and toward the ostensibly value-neutral languages of the… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Since Ivy League admissions data is a notoriously classified commodity, when when Harvard officials said in previous years that alumni kids were… — John Larew 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
Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science. — Henry Charles Carey Copy Share Image
“The social science fear the radical impulse in literary studies, and over the decades, we in the humanities have trivialized the social… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 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
“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
I wasn't looking to be an Indian brass band, but to be a band that reflected my complete identity as an American.… — Sunny Jain Copy Share Image
The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
[Critical social science attempts] to determine when theoretical statements grasp invariant regularities of social action as such and when they express ideologically… — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“We need some heterodoxy in social science in order for them to avoid death by suffocation under dogmatism.” — Anonymous 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
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
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 believe that it is the task of social science to produce nuanced and people-centered forms of knowledge, correcting asymmetries of information… — Adriana Petryna Copy Share Image
“Teaching social science is at its best meant assisting students in making connections across time and place, both seeking common humanity and… — Mike Rose 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