Accounts Quote by Emile Durkheim

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

— Ruth Benedict

As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function…

— Elizabeth Fee

Mankind is a science that defies definitions.

— Robert Burns

“It is the task of the "science of man" to arrive eventually at a correct description of what deserves to be called human nature.…

— Erich Fromm

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

— Jose Padilha

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

— Russell Baker

The thing that distinguishes social systems from physical or even biological systems is their incomparable (and embarrassing) richness in special cases. Generalizations in the…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can…

— John Stuart Mill

Science, is the creation by humans of a particular paradigm and methodology for discovering truth and understanding reality. Hence it can never fully reflect…

— Stephen A. Diamond

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

— Felix Bloch

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

— Oscar Wilde

Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the…

— Ruth Benedict