Celestial Quote by Vilfredo Pareto

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.

— Talcott Parsons

Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.

— Henri Poincare

“We have had no polemic interest in writing this book. It would be foolish to deny, however, that our enthusiasm for the present state…

— Peter L. Berger

Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects…

— Murray Gell-Mann

“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

I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social…

— Ian Hacking

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made…

— Auguste Comte

My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic…

— Michael Polanyi

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

— James D. Watson

Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS.

— David Hestenes

The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

At present, when the prevailing forms of society have become hindrances to the free expression of human powers, it is precisely the abstract branches…

— Max Horkheimer