Hard Quote by Herbert Simon

I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a…

— Herbert A. Simon

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

I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.

— Ian Goldin

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

— Roger Bacon

What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more pragmatic about…

— Thomas Piketty

You kind of alluded to it in your introduction. I mean, for the last 300 or so years, the exact sciences have been dominated…

— Stephen Wolfram

I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what…

— Simon Newcomb

There is a noticeable general difference between the sciences and mathematics on the one hand, and the humanities and social sciences on the other.…

— Noam Chomsky

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

— Isaac Barrow

What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the…

— Anonymous

Mathematics is the key and door to the sciences.

— Galileo Galilei

I've always liked all the sciences, like math, physics and biology.

— Sigrid Agren