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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in…
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…
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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
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In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce…
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder…
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Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants…
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations…
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One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of…
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When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming…
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The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
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It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with…
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Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or…
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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…
— Vilfredo Pareto
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Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't.
— Ernest Rutherford
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The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help…
— H. Bentley Glass
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Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social…
— Michael Kinsley
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As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the…
— Jerome Ravetz
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In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the…
— Edward Condon
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Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and…
— Michael Kinsley
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...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological…
— Thomas Piketty
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The second reason why we haven't observed the growing gap is that our historical and social science analyses have concentrated on what…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet…
— James R Newman
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Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.
— Gerald Vizenor
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