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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
- In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the… — Edward Condon
- ...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological… — Thomas Piketty
- 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
- The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ...… — E. O. Wilson
- The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't. — Ernest Rutherford
- Among the social sciences, economists are the snobs. Economics, with its numbers and graphs and curves, at least has the coloration and… — Michael Kinsley
- Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences. — Gerald Vizenor