Hard Quote by Herbert Simon

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

— Marquis de Custine

They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to…

— Tobias Dantzig

Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.

— Heinz von Foerster

Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics, and, some…

— Robert J. Sawyer

As a child, I envisioned a career in the hard sciences. In sixth grade, I was buying college chemistry textbooks.

— Reggie Fils-Aime

Perhaps the best reason to consider the hard sciences is that, well, one study suggests science, engineering, medicine, and dentistry graduates live longer than…

— Warren Farrell

One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

Computers seem a little too adaptively flexible, like the strange natives, odd societies, and head cases we study in the social sciences. There's more…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Algorithm without humanity is mental holocaust.”

— Abhijit Naskar

...the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at…

— Thomas Piketty

“The physical sciences capitalize on the lessons of the past, but the social sciences seldom do.”

— W. Cleon Skousen

The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential complexity, i.e.…

— Friedrich August von Hayek