--- title: "29 Social Scientists Quotes by 27 authors" description: "Browse 29 Social Scientists quotes by 27 authors. Discover the best Social Scientists sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b85/george-friedman-7436_poet_the-poets-think-about-war-more-than-the_2701792.png" --- > [The poets think about war more than the social scientists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-friedman/the-poets-think-about-war-more-than-the-social-scientists/) [George Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-friedman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b85/george-friedman-7436_poet_the-poets-think-about-war-more-than-the_2701792.png) > [The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rodney-stark/the-great-myth-that-many-social-scientists-want-to-encourage-is-that/) [Rodney Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rodney-stark/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62b/rodney-stark-7977_absolute_the-great-myth-that-many-social-scientis_965793.jpg) > [Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenneth-e-boulding/economists-and-technologists-bring-the-bits-but-it-requires-the/) [Kenneth E. Boulding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenneth-e-boulding/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/398/kenneth-e-boulding-3728_bits_economists-and-technologists-bring-the-b_961445.png) > [“Social scientists are not universally liked or appreciated, but we are still marginally more acceptable than alcoholics and escaped lunatics.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-fox/social-scientists-are-not-universally-liked-or-appreciated-but-we-are/) [Kate Fox](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-fox/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d9/kate-fox-29910_science_social-scientists-are-not-universally-li_3016278.jpg) > [“BYSTANDER EFFECT: Phenomenon documented by social scientists in which people are less likely to help someone in distress when there are others…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-winokur/bystander-effect-phenomenon-documented-by-social-scientists-in-which/) [Jon Winokur](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-winokur/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d2/jon-winokur-32412_bystander_bystander-effect-phenomenon-documented-b_1733657.png) > [The overwhelming majority of social scientists were irreligious or even anti-religious. This led them to believe that religion was a disappearing and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rodney-stark/the-overwhelming-majority-of-social-scientists-were-irreligious-or/) [Rodney Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rodney-stark/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a27/rodney-stark-7977_affair_the-overwhelming-majority-of-social-scie_1718957.png) > [“Social scientists generally agree that students’ families (especially family income, which determines advantages and opportunity) have an even bigger impact on student…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diane-ravitch/social-scientists-generally-agree-that-students-families-especially/) [Diane Ravitch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diane-ravitch/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/662/diane-ravitch-11245_education_social-scientists-generally-agree-that-s_657645.jpg) > [It makes sense for social scientists to become more involved in policy because many of society's most challenging problems are, in essence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-thaler/it-makes-sense-for-social-scientists-to-become-more-involved-in/) [Richard Thaler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-thaler/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/294/richard-thaler-3060_behavioral_it-makes-sense-for-social-scientists-to_2398417.png) > [Abraham Lincoln was on the side of the social scientists when he said, "God must have loved the people of lower and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwin-newman/abraham-lincoln-was-on-the-side-of-the-social-scientists-when-he-said/) [Edwin Newman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwin-newman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3aa/edwin-newman-33779_abraham_abraham-lincoln-was-on-the-side-of-the-s_2584586.png) > [That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-beck/that-was-the-first-major-social-sciences-conference-at-which-social/) [Ulrich Beck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-beck/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c21/ulrich-beck-19567_also_that-was-the-first-major-social-sciences_2057738.jpg) > [My Third-World roots remind me that the vast majority of our fellow human beings live hungry, sick, and uneducated, and that most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mario-bunge/my-third-world-roots-remind-me-that-the-vast-majority-of-our-fellow/) [Mario Bunge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mario-bunge/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/699/mario-bunge-17317_choices_my-third-world-roots-remind-me-that-the_2559530.jpg) > [Can a controlled experiment explain why people like Kewpie dolls in one year, Beanie Babies in another, and American Girl dolls this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-j-shiller/can-a-controlled-experiment-explain-why-people-like-kewpie-dolls-in/) [Robert J. Shiller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-j-shiller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d3a/robert-j-shiller-8591_answers_can-a-controlled-experiment-explain-why_125848.jpg) > [I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/otto-scharmer/i-think-it-is-now-time-for-social-scientists-to-step-out-of-the/) [Otto Scharmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/otto-scharmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d06/otto-scharmer-49275_action_i-think-it-is-now-time-for-social-scient_2389691.jpg) > [In the late 60s, 70s and possibly early 80s, social scientists were interested in researching the diffusion of innovation and studying the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ruth-simmons/in-the-late-60s-70s-and-possibly-early-80s-social-scientists-were/) [Ruth Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ruth-simmons/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/386/ruth-simmons-16832_80s_in-the-late-60s-70s-and-possibly-early-8_392628.jpg) > [Biblical social scientists have an advantage because they know truths about human nature. Those who dismiss the Bible and create surveys that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marvin-olasky/biblical-social-scientists-have-an-advantage-because-they-know-truths/) [Marvin Olasky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marvin-olasky/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f0/marvin-olasky-18081_advantage_biblical-social-scientists-have-an-advan_2101421.jpg) > [“Edward Castronova has argued that virtual worlds are “the modern equivalent to supercolliders for social scientists. . . . Virtual worlds allow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nick-yee/edward-castronova-has-argued-that-virtual-worlds-are-the-modern/) [Nick Yee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nick-yee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f16/nick-yee-26952_long-term_edward-castronova-has-argued-that-virtua_1958911.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hazel-henderson/only-now-are-increasing-numbers-of-political-and-social-scientists/) [Hazel Henderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hazel-henderson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8e/hazel-henderson-31097_alternatives_only-now-are-increasing-numbers-of-polit_1468316.png) > [“Social scientific research is and always will be tentative and imperfect. It does not claim to transform economics, sociology, and history into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-piketty/social-scientific-research-is-and-always-will-be-tentative-and/) [Thomas Piketty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-piketty/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2fb/thomas-piketty-3584_science_social-scientific-research-is-and-always_1604147.jpg) > [“Social scientific research is and always will be tentative and imperfect. It does not claim to transform economics, sociology, and history into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/social-scientific-research-is-and-always-will-be-tentative-and-2/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b0/anonymous-1_science_social-scientific-research-is-and-always_3182556.jpg) > [“Many philosophers, economists and social scientists saw the middle classes, as the tool to end all class division, with an end of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/owen-h-lewis/many-philosophers-economists-and-social-scientists-saw-the-middle/) [Owen H Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/owen-h-lewis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/39a/owen-h-lewis-81485_philosophy_many-philosophers-economists-and-social_2813156.jpg) > [“Social scientists sometimes talk about the concept of "identity". It is the idea that you have a particular vision of the kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/steven-d-levitt/social-scientists-sometimes-talk-about-the-concept-of-identity-it-is/) [Steven D. Levitt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/steven-d-levitt/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/362/steven-d-levitt-5284_dreams_social-scientists-sometimes-talk-about-t_1371154.jpg) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orlando-rodriguez/we-re-not-policy-people-and-we-don-t-want-to-be-policy-people-all-we/) [Orlando Rodriguez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orlando-rodriguez/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c86/orlando-rodriguez-89952_data_we-re-not-policy-people-and-we-don-t-wan_1793387.jpg) > [One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-a-christakis/one-reason-citizens-politicians-and-university-donors-sometimes-lack/) [Nicholas A. Christakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-a-christakis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/11e/nicholas-a-christakis-20388_chance_one-reason-citizens-politicians-and-univ_1024626.png) > [I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-a-christakis/i-m-not-suggesting-that-social-scientists-stop-teaching-and/) [Nicholas A. Christakis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-a-christakis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e39/nicholas-a-christakis-20388_bad_i-m-not-suggesting-that-social-scientist_998016.png) > [“But Hayek is also one of the handful of social scientists who (along with his teacher Ludwig von Mises) demonstrated more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-horowitz/but-hayek-is-also-one-of-the-handful-of-social-scientists-who-along/) [David Horowitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-horowitz/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d6/david-horowitz-4695_capitalism_but-hayek-is-also-one-of-the-handful-of_398770.png) > [“recent discoveries that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional severely undercut the social scientists’ official view of the world because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-wade/recent-discoveries-that-human-evolution-has-been-recent-copious-and/) [Nicholas Wade](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-wade/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/437/nicholas-wade-11913_biology_recent-discoveries-that-human-evolution_1375038.jpg) > [Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-faludi/social-scientists-could-supply-plenty-of-research-to-show-that-one/) [Susan Faludi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-faludi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/121/susan-faludi-12461_backlash_social-scientists-could-supply-plenty-of_1662453.jpg) > [“Despite the obvious difficulties when it comes to social systems, social scientists have been very imaginative in devising analogous quantitative experiments to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/geoffrey-west/despite-the-obvious-difficulties-when-it-comes-to-social-systems/) [Geoffrey West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/geoffrey-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dde/geoffrey-west-7474_research_despite-the-obvious-difficulties-when-it_3018947.jpg) > [The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/talcott-parsons/the-conception-that-instead-of-this-contemporary-society-is-at-or/) [Talcott Parsons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/talcott-parsons/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dde/talcott-parsons-19348_contemporary-society_the-conception-that-instead-of-this-cont_673916.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/social-scientists/#itemlist", "name": "Social Scientists Quotes", "numberOfItems": 29, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The poets think about war more than the social scientists.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Friedman" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-friedman/the-poets-think-about-war-more-than-the-social-scientists/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b85/george-friedman-7436_poet_the-poets-think-about-war-more-than-the_2701792.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b85/george-friedman-7436_poet_the-poets-think-about-war-more-than-the_2701792.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b85/george-friedman-7436_poet_the-poets-think-about-war-more-than-the_2701792.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The poets think about war more than the social scientists.” — George Friedman", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. 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