Academic Quote by Richard Wall

How could so many intelligent people be so grievously wrong for such an extended period of time? How could they ignore so much overwhelming…

— Steven Johnson

“In my early teens, [my grandfather] would sometimes stomp around his living room, where he used to shave towards mid-day with bowl, brush and…

— Peter Hitchens

Whether sociology can ever become a full-fledged "science" (a description of a class of events predictable on the basis of deductions from a constant…

— Anatol Rapoport

The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was…

— Russell Baker

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

— Denise Scott Brown

I'm not a sociologist, and the novel has often concerned itself with sociology. It's one of the generating forces that's made fiction interesting to…

— Jonathan Lethem

I think sociologists are among the best at thinking about emergence, of thinking about the ways that the society is more than the sum…

— Jonathan Haidt

“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample…

— Richard Wall

The president is the high priest of what sociologist Robert Bellah calls the 'American civil religion.' The president must invoke the name of God…

— Jonathan Haidt

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

— Thomas Piketty