Quotes of: Social-sciences Keyword

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

Huston Smith

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

James Henry Breasted

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

John Desmond Bernal

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

James Dyson

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

Jacque Fresco

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.

James Anthony Froude

And for mathematical science, he that doubts their certainty hath need of a dose of hellebore.

Joseph Glanvill

'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.

Jack Horner

Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society.

John Charles Polanyi

Science is only truly consistent with an atheistic worldview with regards to the claimed miracles of the gods of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Lawrence M. Krauss

I really like that my work is getting more people interested in science.

Lisa Randall

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Michael P. Anderson

My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.

Martin Feldstein

In beef trade issues, we base our decisions upon science.

Mike Johanns

Ultimately, the problem is that sex is perceived as a personal, intimate thing, not in the realm of science. But that's not true. It's physiology; it's anatomy. It deserves to be studied.

Mary Roach

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

Michael Shermer

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

Michael Specter

I've never thought of acting as rocket science - you put on the costume, get your hair cut, and that's it, really.

Marc Warren

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

Margaret J. Wheatley