Behavior Quote by Carroll Quigley

After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural…

— Carroll Quigley

If the other persons behavior is not in harmony with my own needs, the more I empathize with them and their needs, the more…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

“A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different…

— William James

The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential complexity, i.e.…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.

— Anonymous

The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man.

— Jon Elster

“Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.”

— Edgar Douglas Adrian

The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

The findings in contemporary social sciences are helping us understand that we can find other ways to educate people and act against injustice and…

— Tariq Ramadan

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.

— Ernest Rutherford

I have never suggested any principled difference between the natural and social sciences.

— Noam Chomsky

The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find…

— Ruth Benedict