Behavior 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

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

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen…

— Lawrence Joseph Henderson

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly…

— Herbert Simon

Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science…

— Talcott Parsons

It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

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

— Hope Jahren

“The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences. [All the other sciences] have a relation, greater or lesser, to…

— David Hume

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

— James D. Watson

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

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.

— Ian Goldin