Social Science Quotes
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Social Science Quotes & Sayings
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Doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct
— Kathryn Schulz
There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.
— James D. Watson
Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
As the world of science has grown in size and in power, its deepest problems have changed from the epistemological to the social.
— Jerome Ravetz
Science fiction is always about the time it's written in. 1984 was always about 1948. Science fiction is social fiction. I
— Warren Ellis
Similar probabilistic models have become central to economics, sociology, psychology, political science and the other social and natural sciences.
— Yuval Noah Harari
Medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine on a large scale,
— Robert M. Sapolsky
What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots?
— Humberto Contreras
Talent alone does not make someone an expert.
— John W. Santrock
A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and
understanding. — Marshall McLuhan
understanding. — Marshall McLuhan
Wishing the world was predictable an controllable does not make it so, and it might make us disregard what is actually happening
— Jean G. Boulton
Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time.
— Fernand Braudel
It's not rocket science. It's social science.
— Clement Mok
..the happy hum of humanity.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Economics is a social science, not a physical science.
— Jim Stanford
From a social standpoint the man of science does not exist.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me ... only he's an imbecile.
— Spider Robinson
[Social] science fiction is that branch of literature which is concerned with the impact of scientific advance on human beings.
— Isaac Asimov
Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
He happy hum of humanity.
— Arthur C. Clarke
Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.
— Henry Charles Carey
It is inconceivable that our mind does not change according to where we might be, and how we perceived in it.
— Tsan-Kuo Chang
Religion and Science are two aspects of social life, of which the former has been important as far back as we know anything of man
— Bertrand Russell
There is only one social science and we are its practitioners
— George Stigler
Social Media Strategy isn't rocket science...but it might as well be if you don't know what you're doing.
— Sherree Mongrain
We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
— Jared Diamond
Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.
— Jacque Fresco
The modern research laboratory can be a large and complicated social organism.
— J. Michael Bishop
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism
and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould
and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency. — Stephen Jay Gould
We need some heterodoxy in social science in order for them to avoid death by suffocation under dogmatism.
— Bourdieu, Pierre
Both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold
— Kathryn Schulz
Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.
— Abhijit Naskar
In the pursuit of breaking free from all the shackles of man-made bondages, science is the most effective tool we have till this date.
— Abhijit Naskar
This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition
— Steven Weinberg
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
— Bertrand Russell
I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programed to collect pure information.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Bookworms aren't people who love to read. They are people who treat books as treasures. Anonymous
— Bette A. Stevens
Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.
— Ann Druyan
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't.
— Ernest Rutherford
There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
The social problems that arise, arise from the facts, not our investigation of these facts.
— Hans Jurgen Eysenck
Slow down to speed up. Anonymous
— Melissa G. Wilson
I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.
— Joan Didion
The organization of science into disciplines sets up a series of ghettos with remarkable distances of artificial social space between them.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.
— Rivera Sun
Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.
— Mario Bunge
Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.
— Kary Mullis