Being wrong Quote by William Browne

Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the…

— Nikola Tesla

“Thus, by science I mean, first of all, a worldview giving primacy to reason and observation and a methodology aimed at acquiring accurate knowledge…

— Alan Sokal

The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded… Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.

— Allan Bloom

Whether...a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place...depends on one factor: how many brilliant, learned, disciplined,…

— Erich Fromm

A … difference between most system-building in the social sciences and systems of thought and classification of the natural sciences is to be seen…

— Lawrence Joseph Henderson

“All discourses and disciplines proceed from commitments and beliefs that are ultimately religious in nature. No scientific discourse (whether natural science or social science)…

— James K.A. Smith

“Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.”

— Edgar Douglas Adrian

The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find…

— Ruth Benedict

After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural…

— Carroll Quigley

“Empirical reality becomes nature when we view it with respect to its universal characteristics; it becomes history when we view it as particular and…

— Terry Nardin

[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task…

— Karl Popper