“ I write for the beauty of the printed word" from PREFACE to BIPOLAR BUFFALO” — Anthony Antek Copy Share Image
“A little hypocrisy and a little compromise oils the wheels of social life” — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems. — Kenneth E. Boulding 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
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
“Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous” — Anonymous 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
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
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
It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all. — Wolfgang Kohler 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
“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
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
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
“Perception without judgment is spineless; judgment with no perception is blind. Introversion lacking any extraversion is impractical; extraversion with no introversion is… — Isabel Briggs Myers 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
“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
Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces… — Thomas Carlyle 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
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
“Is it not strange that it should be precisely our century—a century of social science and of solidarity if ever there was… — Antonin Sertillanges 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
Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to… — Joseph A. Schumpeter 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
I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Many network theorists note that human beings differ dramatically from the rational profit maximizer of social science theory. Neuroscientists exploring different regions… — Anne-Marie Slaughter 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
“The entire destiny of modern linguistics is in fact determined by Saussure's inaugural act through which he separates the ‘external’ elements of… — Pierre Bourdieu 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 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
“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
“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
“It may be in the ubiquitous phenomenon of terrorism that one can most easily see how universal emotional processes transcend the conventional… — 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
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