Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale. — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics -… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“Woman's sexual problems are, in this sense, by-products of the suppression of her basic need to grow and fulfill her potentialities as… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
The Pseudo-liberals monopolize the teaching jobs at many universities. Only men who agree with them are appointed as teachers and instructors of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“In the collision between the remoteness and purity of the rainforest realms and the crassness of consumer culture, the difference is so… — Jonathon Miller Weisberger Copy Share Image
In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the… — Edward Condon Copy Share Image
I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences… — Otto Scharmer Copy Share Image
Economists should be modest and be aware that they are part of the broader social science community. We need to be pragmatic… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
I started to teach social science for the sixth grade. I wasn't a teacher, but I had enough college lessons. I was… — Ed ONeill Copy Share Image
“In so far as he [sic] is concerned with liberal, that is to say liberating, education, his public role has two goals:… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Anarchism is in reality the ideal of political and social science, and also the ideal of religion. It is the ideal to… — R. Heber Newton Copy Share Image
The Spirit of Cities presents a new approach to the study of cities in which the focus is placed on a city's… — Nathan Glazer Copy Share Image
The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Many of our students want to do what they have done and that has made them successful thus far in their lives:… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
“All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
“About 41 percent of mothers are primary breadwinners and earn the majority of their family’s income. Another 23 percent of mothers are… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“In the pages that follow I will show that America’s leadership rut has both a conceptual and an emotional dimension that reinforce… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“Researchers who emphasize the tragic consequences of these events, however, see the effort to focus on the recovery as denial of the… — Edwin H. Friedman Copy Share Image
“The Measure of America, a report of the Social Science Research Council, ranks every state in the United States on its “human… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
“One cannot do justice to Marx without recognizing his sincerity. His open-mindedness, his sense of facts, his distrust of verbiage, and especially… — Karl R. Popper Copy Share Image
The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable. — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Our biggest project is actually more in the social sciences, where we are studying mastery - how people get good at things… — L. Todd Rose Copy Share Image
The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man. — Jon Elster Copy Share Image
“the dominant ways of thinking about culture and cultural change are flawed, for they are based on both specious social science and… — James Davison Hunter Copy Share Image
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. — Fernand Braudel Copy Share Image
Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
I think Rodney Stark makes a substantial contribution to the study of early Christianity in posing the kinds of questions that he… — Larry Hurtado Copy Share Image
History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in… — Edward Hallett Carr Copy Share Image
Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
I remember walking up to those college doors and going in to my college at sixth form and getting the envelope and… — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history,… — Clement Mok 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
Whether...a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place...depends on one factor: how many brilliant,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the ludus naturae, sorcery begins.No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or make-believe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Thus we seem to be on the verge of an expansion of welfare economics into something like a social science of ethics… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“Decades of social science studies have confirmed what the Heidi/Howard case study so blatantly demonstrates: we evaluate people based on stereotypes (gender,… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
“For example, a set of twenty-five studies involving five hundred astrologers examined the average degree of agreement between astrological predictions. In social… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
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