Chance Quote by Nicholas A. Christakis

“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

Some people might have different ideas about what progress looks like, and some are cynical and place their short-term political interests ahead of what…

— Valerie Jarrett

The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short…

— Bill Gates

Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other…

— Hannes Alfven

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

Politicians often misuse science for political ends and to pursue their own agenda.

— Leonard Mlodinow

The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing…

— Robert J. Shiller

It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political…

— Geoffrey Howe

Today most funding for science comes through government. That means that you have to be known to be sympathetic to conclusions that are acceptable…

— Doug Casey

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

Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don't look in other directions.

— Anonymous

In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost.…

— Michael Crichton