Best Social Science Quotes
58 Social Science quotes by 54 unique authors
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The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution…
— E. O. Wilson
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Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe…
— David Riesman
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Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest of the biosphere.…
— Richard Heinberg
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The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking…
— Daniel H. Pink
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What worries me is that the debate about gender differences still seems to polarize nature vs. nurture, with some in the social sciences and humanities…
— Simon Baron-Cohen
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A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to…
— Gregory S. Paul
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Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
— Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
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Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.
— Henry Charles Carey
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We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
— Jared Diamond
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History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being…
— I. Bernard Cohen
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I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
— Ian Hacking
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I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from…
— Ellen Ullman
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My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the dinner table.
— Seth Gordon
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Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
— Fernand Braudel
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The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
— Unknown Author
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While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act is…
— Richard R. Nelson
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I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science…
— Otto Scharmer
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Where our knowledge of beauty harmonizes with the ludus naturae, sorcery begins.No, not spoon-bending or horoscopy, not the Golden Dawn or make-believe shamanism, astral projection…
— Hakim
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Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology, anthropology, and I was playing…
— George Lucas
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The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
— Bertrand Russell
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The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations…
— Peter Ustinov
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I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them…
— Ray Bradbury
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