Commentator Quote by Rachel Cusk

Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

— James Frey

“How do I know what I think until I hear what I say? —E. M. FORSTER, NOVELIST AND SOCIAL ACTIVIST E”

— Josh Kaufman

“The physicist's relativity, which in recent years has changed our whole approach to scientific knowledge, is harder, and therefore easier to understand, than the…

— Betty Friedan

“But in situations where innovations proliferate, where group boundaries are uncertain, when the range of entities to be taken into account fluctuates, the sociology…

— Bruno Latour

The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society…

— Richard Lewontin

To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines…

— C. Wright Mills

It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into public issues,…

— C. Wright Mills

If you're a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis.

— Jordan Peterson

Data is immensely appealing to me as a social scientist.

— Zeynep Tufekci

Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics, and, some…

— Robert J. Sawyer

I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a disciplinary and…

— Jonathan Haidt

Playing with different genres and perspectives and ways of telling stories is one of the perks of being a novelist, but at the same…

— Linn Ullmann