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«The only possible conclusion the social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't»

Author: Ernest Rutherford (Chemist) | About: Science | Keywords: conclusion, sciences, social science, social sciences, The Social, the Social Sciences

«The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the 'social sciences' is: some do, some don't»

Author: Ernest Rutherford (Chemist) | Keywords: interpretation, sciences, social science, social sciences, The Social, the Social Sciences

«The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.»

Author: John von Neumann (Mathematician) | Keywords: interpret, interpretations, mainly, phenomena, sciences, solely

«This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.»

Author: Thomas Dekker (Dramatist, Writer) | About: Magic, World | Keywords: inscrutable, magical, sciences

«The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.»

Author: David Hume (Economist, Essayist, Historian, Philosopher) | Keywords: Arts and Industries, Arts and Sciences, attainment, beasts, cultivated, exposed, fury, inclemency, legislator, legislators, modeled, ordained, patriots, sciences, societies, The Elements, The Fury, The Lonely

«The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.»

Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | About: Beauty, Mathematics | Keywords: exhibit, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, forms, limitation, mathematical, particularly, sciences, symmetry

«The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.»

Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | Keywords: chief, definiteness, degree, demonstrate, demonstrating, mathematical, sciences, symmetry, The Chief

«The vanity of the sciences. Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction. But the science of ethics will always console me for the ignorance of the physical sciences.»

Author: Blaise Pascal (Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist) | About: Ethics, Ignorance, Physics, Science | Keywords: affliction, console, physical science, sciences, the sciences

«While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.»

Author: John Adams (President) | About: Government, Science | Keywords: advanced, practiced, sciences, standstill

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