Human nature Quote by Steven Pinker

“Hence anyone who is to listen intelligently to lectures about what is noble and just and, generally, about the subjects of political science must…

— Aristotle

“Science is not separate from politics. As much as I would like it to be a pure thing, existing only in some intellectual realm…

— Marie Brennan

“Mostly what is called political science seems to me a device, invented by university teachers, for avoiding that dangerous subject politics, without achieving science.”

— Alfred Cobban

“I am troubled by grave doubts about the usefulness of scientific endeavor and have a whole drawer filled with treatises on politics and their…

— Albert Szent-Györgyi

“Matters of the world are dealt with more vigor and effectiveness when one views them as the right of nature instead of the superficiality…

— VD

“Science, I had come to learn, is as political, competitive, and fierce a career as you can find, full of the temptation to find…

— Paul Kalanithi

If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should…

— Bertrand Russell

“a better reading of history must bring home the truth that the basic factor in human affairs is not politics, but race.”

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

“Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the…

— Hans J. Morgenthau

“I fear we must use bad science to accomplish good politics.”

— James Cambias

“Turns out we need to know one more thing on earth: politics--because of its capacity, when benign, to allow all around it to flourish,…

— Charles Krauthammer

“Science strides ahead; politics stumbles around like a drunk. We saw it in the age of discovery and the age of empire, but it…

— Andrew Marr