Quotes of: Social-sciences Keyword

In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

John Cale

I loved 'The Social Network.' I think it's one of those movies that will stand the test of time.

Jon M. Chu

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

Alexander Cockburn

All company bosses want a policy on corporate social responsibility. The positive effect is hard to quantify, but the negative consequences of a disaster are enormous.

Noreena Hertz

In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

Virginia Johnson

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

William James

Anonymous is not an organization. It is an idea, a zeitgeist, coupled with a set of social and technical practices.

Yochai Benkler

If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn't work. You have to do it all together.

Aga Khan IV

To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

Cordell Hull

Inconsiderate, rude behavior drives me nuts. And I guess the inconsiderate rudeness of social ineptitude definitely fuels my work.

Cindy Sherman

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Ellen Goodman

With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.

George Packer

Without social cohesion, the human race wouldn't be here: We're not formidable enough to survive without the tactics, rules and strategies that allow people to work together.

Peter Guber

Work for most people is really very social, and the actual thinking is often done in community.

Tobias Wolff

I was lonely, deadly lonely. And I was to find out then, as I found out so many times, over and over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange wit...

The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

Great science emerges out of great contradiction.

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.

The Human Division

Iraq was home of the Abbasid Caliphate, a golden age when the Muslim world was at the forefront of math, science and medicine.

Richard Engel

I don't know whether it is important to study science at a young age, though current thinking emphasises the need.

Robert Winston

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective. I dumped science at an early age.

Sara Sheridan

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

Edgard Varese