Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others. — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences. — Gerald Vizenor Copy Share Image
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics. — Bertrand Russell 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
“It is inconceivable that our mind does not change according to where we might be, and how we perceived in it.” — Tsan-Kuo Chang 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
“I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ...… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Leaders are not modest, and more importantly, the extensive social science research on narcissism, self-promotion, and similar constructs shows that these qualities… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education… — Gaylord Nelson 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
“The latter is useful for predictive purposes only to the extent that the individual participant, in the market relationship, is guided by… — Anonymous 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
In the humanities and social sciences, and in fields like journalism and economics and so on, people have to be trained to… — Noam Chomsky 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
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
“At the same time, it has to be recognized that the conditions for this objectivity are not easily won. They cannot rely… — Michael F.D. Young Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out… — George Lucas 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
“[F]or a social theorist ignorance is more excusable than vagueness. Other investigators can easily show I am wrong if I am sufficiently… — Arthur Stinchcombe 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
“In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“the fringe.” It’s that place where scientists, artists, technologists, philosophers, mathematicians, psychologists, ethicists, and social science thinkers are testing” — Amy Webb Copy Share Image
“Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to… — Edgar Douglas Adrian 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
“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
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
The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the… — Seth Gordon Copy Share Image
I had always had a deep interest in social science, history. So even when I was in high school, I was debating,… — James Heckman 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
“there is virtually no credible social science evidence to support the idea that violence in societies can be effectively addressed in the… — Gary A. Haugen Copy Share Image
Almost no one as I think most leadership books are a joke. They are, as I note in Leadership BS, frequently based… — Jeffrey Pfeffer 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
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
After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from… — Carroll Quigley 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 ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
![“[F]or a social theorist ignorance is more excusable than vagueness. Other investigators can easily show I am wrong if I am sufficiently precise. They will have much more difficulty showing by investigation what, precisely, I mean if I am vague. I hope not to be forced to weasel out with 'But I…” quote by Arthur Stinchcombe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/080/arthur-stinchcombe-151940_clarity_f-or-a-social-theorist-ignorance-is-more_869466.jpg)
