“I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale. — Rudolf Virchow 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
A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many… — Gregory S. Paul Copy Share Image
Philosophy is altogether less pure now. It's been impurified by science and social science and history. — Bernard Williams Copy Share Image
“But academics (particularly in social science) seem to distrust each other; they live in petty obsessions, envy, and icy-cold hatreds, with small… — Anonymous 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in… — Allan Bloom 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
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
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
Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
