The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion.… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
“Social scientists are not universally liked or appreciated, but we are still marginally more acceptable than alcoholics and escaped lunatics.” — Kate Fox Copy Share Image
“BYSTANDER EFFECT: Phenomenon documented by social scientists in which people are less likely to help someone in distress when there are others… — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image
The overwhelming majority of social scientists were irreligious or even anti-religious. This led them to believe that religion was a disappearing and… — Rodney Stark Copy Share Image
“Social scientists generally agree that students’ families (especially family income, which determines advantages and opportunity) have an even bigger impact on student… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
It makes sense for social scientists to become more involved in policy because many of society's most challenging problems are, in essence,… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and… — Edwin Newman Copy Share Image
That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most… — Mario Bunge Copy Share Image
Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this… — Robert J. Shiller 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
In the late 60s, 70s and possibly early 80s, social scientists were interested in researching the diffusion of innovation and studying the… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
Biblical social scientists have an advantage because they know truths about human nature. Those who dismiss the Bible and create surveys that… — Marvin Olasky Copy Share Image
“Edward Castronova has argued that virtual worlds are “the modern equivalent to supercolliders for social scientists. . . . Virtual worlds allow… — Nick Yee Copy Share Image
Only now are increasing numbers of political and social scientists beginning to realize that Kelso's theories provide a private-property-based alternative to the… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
“Social scientific research is and always will be tentative and imperfect. It does not claim to transform economics, sociology, and history into… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“Social scientific research is and always will be tentative and imperfect. It does not claim to transform economics, sociology, and history into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Many philosophers, economists and social scientists saw the middle classes, as the tool to end all class division, with an end of… — Owen H Lewis Copy Share Image
“Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of "identity". It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind… — Steven D. Levitt Copy Share Image
We're not policy people and we don't want to be policy people. All we're interested in, as social scientists, is data that… — Orlando Rodriguez 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
I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
“But Hayek is also one of the handful of social scientists who (along with his teacher Ludwig von Mises) demonstrated more than… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“recent discoveries that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional severely undercut the social scientists’ official view of the world because… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
“Despite the obvious difficulties when it comes to social systems, social scientists have been very imaginative in devising analogous quantitative experiments to… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of… — Talcott Parsons Copy Share Image
