Inspirational Quote by George Stigler Download Open image “There is only one social science and we are its practitioners” — George Stigler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inspirational Love Science Social Social science
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
“Teaching social science is at its best meant assisting students in making connections across time and place, both seeking common humanity and coming to… — Mike Rose Copy Share Image
“Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.” — Edgar Douglas Adrian Copy Share Image
It makes sense for social scientists to become more involved in policy because many of society's most challenging problems are, in essence, behavioral. — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can… — Ulrich Beck Copy Share Image
Science is performed by people, and it's subject to all the various foibles that plague the rest of our social dynamics. — Hope Jahren Copy Share Image
Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to… — Abraham Kaplan Copy Share Image
...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
The Chicago Economics Department was in intellectual ferment, although the central issues of the 1930's were very different from those in later times. I… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
Stigler's Law: No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University. — George Stigler Copy Share Image
We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration. — H. Emilie Cady Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just understand that the good that you want is already here. All you have to do is get in harmony with it. And you… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image