Social Science

At different times I

At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

The only possible conclusion

The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don’t. Ernest Rutherford

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, and caring men and women are attracted by the new challenge. Erich Fromm

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I’ve always written. I’m from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities. Ellen Ullman

History is preoccupied with

History is preoccupied with fundamental processes of change. If you are allergic to these processes, you abandon history and take cover in the social sciences. Today anthropology, sociology, etc, flourish. History is sick. But then our society too is sick Edward Hallett Carr

In short, the greatest

In short, the greatest contribution to real security that science can make is through the extension of the scientific method to the social sciences and a solution of the problem of complete avoidance of war. Edward Condon

The price of these

The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. … The intellectual solution to the first dilemma can be achieved by a deeper and more courageous examination of human nature that combines the findings of biology with those of the social sciences. E. … Read more

The social sciences, like

The social sciences, like much of biology but unlike most fields of the physical sciences, have to deal with structures of essential complexity, i.e. with structures whose characteristic properties can be exhibited only by models made up of relatively large numbers of variables. Friedrich August von Hayek

Social science virtually abhors

Social science virtually abhors the event. Not without reason; the short-term is the most capricious and deceptive form of time. Fernand Braudel