Isaiah-berlin Quote by Isaiah Berlin

The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.

— Carroll Quigley

“In this setting modern modern science tends increasingly to become one of two things: either a high form of technology, often with a goal…

— Francis A. Schaeffer

How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this,…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“If social worlds are truly complex, then we might need to recast our various attempts at understanding, predicting, and manipulating their behavior. In some…

— John H. Miller

Science is performed by people, and it's subject to all the various foibles that plague the rest of our social dynamics.

— Hope Jahren

“We have had no polemic interest in writing this book. It would be foolish to deny, however, that our enthusiasm for the present state…

— Peter L. Berger

“Despite the obvious difficulties when it comes to social systems, social scientists have been very imaginative in devising analogous quantitative experiments to inspire and…

— Geoffrey West

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

— Thomas Jefferson

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.

— Stanley Milgram

The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.

— George Washington

Every individual is representative of the whole . . . and should be intimately understood, and this would give a far greater understanding of…

— Anais Nin