Social Sciences Quotes

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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
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
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
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
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
If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters,… — Imre Lakatos
A historical perspective can also help free us from the ever-present danger -- especially at danger in the social sciences -- of absolutizing a theory… — Rollo May
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
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
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
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
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. — Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
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
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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