Brands Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Download Open image “Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brands Certain Humans Inventing Mean Nature of man Science Social Social science
Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is… — Michael Kinsley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
“Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.” — Edgar Douglas Adrian Copy Share Image
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Teaching social science is at its best meant assisting students in making connections across time and place, both seeking common humanity and coming to… — Mike Rose Copy Share Image
Social engineering is the clever manipulation and control of ideas in a sequenced pattern that doesn't change. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“I believe that it is the task of social science to produce nuanced and people-centered forms of knowledge, correcting asymmetries of information and helping… — Adriana Petryna Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man. — Jon Elster Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
In politics we face the choice between warmongering, nation-state loving, big-business agents on one hand; and risk-blind, top-down, epistemic arrogant big servants of large… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“One needs to go out and buy a lottery ticket in order to win. Does it mean that the work involved in the trip… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Individuals should think about the worst-case scenarios and plan for them. The world will be crazier than you think it will be. Put money… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“If you are looking for your misplaced wallet in your living room, in a trial and error mode, you exercise rationality by not looking… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Most humans manage to squander their free time, as free time makes them dysfunctional, lazy, and unmotivated—the busier they get, the more active they… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
We learn the most from fools ... yet we pay them back with the worst ingratitude. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“She kneeled down, opened the wine fridge, and scanned the shelves, filled with a variety of white wines. Sam began to pull each bottle… — Viola Shipman Copy Share Image
Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
I like that you can easily flip the sheets over and have a different feel or vibe in your room. You don't have to… — Shaun White Copy Share Image
I feel that if your soul was branded by the sixties, you never lost the brand. It's like going into a nightclub and having… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I don't feel the need to brand myself in that way [social media]. But as a means to share information and raise awareness of… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
To become a celebrity is to become a brand name. There is Ivory Soap, Rice Krispies, and Philip Roth. Ivory is the soap that… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
What are you for? It may be, to a degree, consoling that white brothers and sisters did not vote for [Donald] Trump, and do… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at… — Adam Kluger Copy Share Image
I wish Elton Brand the best. He's a great guy. He's always going to be a great friend of mine, regardless of what goes… — Baron Davis Copy Share Image
Sourav's greatest asset is his ability to communicate. He is a naturally very confident person. He encourages his team, is a great motivator and… — Ravi Shastri Copy Share Image
I think that, honestly, people's censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others make. You… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
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