Approximation Quote by Noam Chomsky

One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem, above all other sciences, is that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable, while those of other…

— Albert Einstein

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

— Clifford Geertz

“The sciences are not sectarian. People do not persecute each other on account of disagreements in mathematics. Families are not divided about botany, and…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“We tend to see math and science as a steady state of facts rather than as the accumulated knowledge of linear traditions. As Korzybski…

— Douglas Rushkoff

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

Mathematics is really an art, not a science. You could say science also is an art. So I would say the difference is something…

— Freeman Dyson

I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a…

— Herbert A. Simon

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lack of real contact between mathematics and biology is either a tragedy, a scandal or a challenge, it is hard to decide which.

— Gian-Carlo Rota

What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more pragmatic about…

— Thomas Piketty

The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their students, why their subjects really matter, for the sake of attracting money…

— Alain de Botton

It seems perfectly clear that Economy, if it is to be a science at all, must be a mathematical science. There exists much prejudice…

— William Stanley Jevons