Contemporary society Quote by Thomas Piketty

“Social scientific research is and always will be tentative and imperfect. It does not claim to transform economics, sociology, and history into exact sciences.…

— Thomas Piketty

If science has a lot to do with what works, then clearly there's much about today's social and economic setup that isn't scientific, because…

— Jacque Fresco

The tendencies are considerably weaker in the natural sciences, which, for the past several centuries, have survived and flourished through such constant challenge, and…

— Noam Chomsky

“There is inevitably a chicken-and-the-egg character to any debate as to whether economic growth produces its appropriate mental character or is produced by it.…

— Keith Thomas

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Today the most civilized countries of the world spend a maximum of their income on war and a minimum on education. The twenty-first century…

— Nikola Tesla

That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more…

— George Stigler

Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.

— Narendra Modi

Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard -…

— Jacques Monod

If history could prove and teach us anything, it would be the private ownership of the means of production as a necessary requisite of…

— Ludwig von Mises

“In this setting modern modern science tends increasingly to become one of two things: either a high form of technology, often with a goal…

— Francis A. Schaeffer