Branch Quote by Jill Lepore Download Open image “Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.” — Jill Lepore ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Branch Century History Late Modern Nineteenth Nineteenth century Political Political science Science Started
There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature. — Jeff Greenfield Copy Share Image
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the… — Norman Lockyer Copy Share Image
Political Economy as a branch of science is extremely modern; but the subject with which its enquiries are conversant has in all ages necessarily… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Science strides ahead; politics stumbles around like a drunk. We saw it in the age of discovery and the age of empire, but it… — Andrew Marr Copy Share Image
“Mostly what is called political science seems to me a device, invented by university teachers, for avoiding that dangerous subject politics, without achieving science.” — Alfred Cobban Copy Share Image
A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
“This is not to say that science itself is politics. Scientific knowledge is profoundly different from political ideology. Science is an intellectual system producing… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“After 1789, politics ceased to be considered as the prudent management of men and circumstances, in order to become the 'realization of ideas'. Political… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image
“I suggested that a better understanding of human nature in the light of modern science can point the way to an approach to politics… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The very first television ad targeted to women was produced by the Eisenhower-Nixon campaign in 1956. It includes footage of a woman supervising her… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful.… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
When carrying a concealed weapon for self-defense is understood NOT as a failure of civil society, to be mourned, but as an act of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
'Doctor Who' is, unavoidably, a product of mid-twentieth-century debates about Britain's role in the world as its empire unravelled. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“Still, it strikes me that, taken together, they do make an argument, and it is this: the rise of American democracy is bound up… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“Foolish man, what do you bemoan, and what do you fear? Wherever you look there is an end of evils. You see that yawning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
The thing about the Air Force or any branch of the military is that all of us were plucked away from our homes and… — Jon Huertas Copy Share Image
If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
The founding leaders of our country believed in a three-part sharing of governmental power, with each branch jealously watching the actions of the other… — Chellie Pingree Copy Share Image
Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don't go out on the branch, you're never going to get the best fruit. — Sarah Parish Copy Share Image
I've been in the legislative branch and now the executive branch and in each case I felt it was important we use our constitutional… — John Engler Copy Share Image
On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o'clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the dark. We walk to the… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
Retail banking in Africa is very weak. You can't go to a village and get money from an ATM or visit a branch of… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
