Quotes About Society

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Science and democracy are the right and left hands of what I'll refer to as the move from the realm of necessity to the realm of freedom.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

The purpose of education is to fit us for life in a civilised community, and it seems to follow from the subjects we study that the two most important things in civilised life are Art and Science.

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.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

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

America is a constipated nation.... If you pass small stools, you have to have large hospitals.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it

History is the science of people.

A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

The people - could you patent the sun ?

Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.