Soft Sciences Quotes

#1. Economics is in many respects the queen of the soft sciences. It's expected to be better than the rest. It's my view that economics is better at the multi-disciplinary stuff than the rest of the soft science. And it's also my view that it's still lousy ...

Charlie Munger

#2. Hard sciences are successful because they deal with the soft problems; soft sciences are struggling because they deal with the hard problems.

Heinz Von Foerster

#3. Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they're crazy*
* some are dumb, too, but that's another story.

Gregory Cochran

#4. The Universe is a big ship and its captain is the Laws of Physics! The bad news is that there seems to be no safe harbour to dock and no lifeboats if we sink!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. For his sake I'm sorry that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, but for our sake and the sake of music I'm glad he did.

Moby

#6. Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year.

Dean Koontz

#7. How sweet and sacred idleness is!

Walter Savage Landor

#8. Why do you say that I am alone? My body is with me wherever I am, telling me endless stories of hunger and satisfaction, weariness and sleep, eating and drinking and breathing and life. With such company who could ever be alone?

Orson Scott Card

#9. Some find it in their lovers eyes, who can deny the joy it brings. When you've found that special thing, you're flying without wings.

Ruben Studdard

#10. If the married life possess love and virtue, these will be both its duty and reward

Thiruvalluvar

#11. Doubt is a disease that infects the mind creating a mistrust of peoples motives and ones own perceptions. Doubt has the ability to call into questions everything you ever believed about someone and reinforce the darkest suspicions of our inner circle.

Emily Thorne

#12. I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

Bryan Stevenson

#13. Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.

Oscar Levant

#14. I view Al Jazeera as a very serious journalistic outfit. They have proven to observers around the world that they are serious and objective. They will have to, at a P.R. level, prove to the American public that that is the case. And I think that over time they will succeed at doing that.

Eliot Spitzer

#15. On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

Tyler Posey

#16. One forgets the dead quite quickly; one doesn't wonder about the dead-what is he doing now, who is he with?

Graham Greene

#17. I live, I shop almost exclusively on the Internet. I've bought cars on the Internet. I watch television, I do everything on it. I even watch my son online.

Tom Ford

#18. You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.

David Pleat

#19. he did not teach me how to love myself, but he was the bridge that helped me get here. - i thank the universe every day for you.

Amanda Lovelace