Quotes About Social

I survive at the edge of friends circles.

I would choose to live a century in a dark room instead of hanging out with fake friends.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

Dontopedalogy is the science of opening your mouth and putting your foot in it, which I've practised for many years.

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

There is only one science, physics: everything else is social work.

Many 'hard' scientists regard the term 'social science' as an oxymoron. Science means hypotheses you can test, and prove or disprove. Social science is little more than observation putting on airs.

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).

By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.

Science has the cold facts, but lacks religion's social organization and ability to inspire that moves people to act.