I started off thinking that maybe the social sciences ought to have the kinds of mathematics that the natural sciences had. That works a little bit in economics because they talk about costs, prices and quantities of goods.
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marks it off with a disconcerting immo... ROGER BACON It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immor... ERIC TEMPLE BELL The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON Many students from the social sciences have expressed a desire to learn the language because they kn... MABEL ILLIDGE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat... 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STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanic... AHMED ZEWAIL The fact that simultaneous discovery occurs in mathematics, as well as the sciences, points toward s... JOHN D. BARROW Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in erro... ARISTOTLE In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes o... EDMUND HUSSERL I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most myst... ALEXIS DENISOF The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place. CLAUDE T. BISSELL The sciences are being held back by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas, maintained by powerf... RUPERT SHELDRAKE To isolate mathematics from the practical demands of the sciences
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