Social Science Quotes

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Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and… — Vilfredo Pareto
Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of… — Thomas Carlyle
The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't. — Ernest Rutherford
The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help in this. As… — H. Bentley Glass
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little… — Michael Kinsley
As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social. — Jerome Ravetz
In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and… — Edward Condon
Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and paraphernalia of a… — Michael Kinsley
...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the… — Thomas Piketty
The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what has been happening… — Immanuel Wallerstein
Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable economists… — James R Newman
Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences. — Gerald Vizenor
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity… — Irvine Welsh
There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other. It's… — Noam Chomsky
When man faces man the one attempts to put the other to sleep and the other continuously wants to maintain his uprightness. But this is,… — Rudolf Steiner
There is only one social science and we are its practitioners — George Stigler
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is… — Joseph Stiglitz
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale. — Rudolf Virchow
Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. Medicine, as a social science, as the science of… — Rudolf Virchow
In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first… — Gaylord Nelson

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