The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science. — Henry Charles Carey 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
“We need a revolution in academia, with every social science attempting to understand the causes of happiness.” — Richard Layard 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
There's no doubt that inequality destabilizes societies. I think the social science evidence on that front is crystal clear. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
“What you think can determine what you can achieve! So think big to achieve great things!” — Dr. Vivencio Ballano Copy Share Image
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale. — Rudolf Virchow 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
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social… — Michael Kinsley 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
Investing is not a natural science but rather a social science. So, it's never purely empirical; what you are trying to do… — William Browne 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
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
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
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
In Our Underachieving Colleges, [Derek] Bok acts as both diagnostician and healer, wielding social-science statistics and professional studies to trace the etiology… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help… — H. Bentley Glass 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
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
History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that… — I. Bernard Cohen 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
A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to… — Lawrence Joseph Henderson 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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