Air Quote by Michael Kinsley

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

— James D. Watson

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

— George Stigler

Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the latter regarding…

— Allan Bloom

[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.

— Isaac Asimov

“Social scientific research is and always will be tentative and imperfect. It does not claim to transform economics, sociology, and history into exact sciences.…

— Thomas Piketty

Sci-fi is just as much about social science as technology.

— Robert J. Sawyer

Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.

— Henri Poincare

If science has a lot to do with what works, then clearly there's much about today's social and economic setup that isn't scientific, because…

— Jacque Fresco

“The social sciences are obsessed by epistemological questioning in a way that no science, no real science is. You never have a chemistry class…

— Bruno Latour

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