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There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

— James D. Watson

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly…

— Herbert Simon

This example illustrates the differences in the effects which may be produced by research in pure or applied science. A research on the lines…

— Joseph John Thomson

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

— George Stigler

It is necessary to guard ourselves from thinking that the practice of the scientific method enlarges the powers of the human mind. Nothing is…

— Wilfred Trotter

Everywhere science is enriched by unscientific methods and unscientific results, ... the separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental…

— Paul Feyerabend

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is…

— Michael Kinsley

The sciences are of a sociable disposition, and flourish best in the neighborhood of each other; nor is there any branch of learning but…

— William Blackstone

There are fields of scientific work...which have been explored from the different sides of pure mathematics, statistics, electrical engineering, and neurophysiology...in which every single…

— Norbert Wiener

If science has a lot to do with what works, then clearly there's much about today's social and economic setup that isn't scientific, because…

— Jacque Fresco

Science is what scientists do, and there are as many scientific methods as there are individual scientists.

— Percy Williams Bridgman

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

— W. H. Auden