#2,908

The social sciences abound in problems that are unintelligible by their very nature to both the American professor and the Marxist intellectual.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 465

#2,796

The social sciences are not, properly speaking, inexact sciences, but sciences of the inexact.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448

#2,764

There is no social science so exact that the historian does not need to correct and adapt it to be able to use it.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444

#2,715

The commonplaces of the Western tradition are the guidelines that do not deceive in the social sciences.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437

#2,685

In the social sciences, one should only generalize in order to individualize better.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 433

#2,649

Without a previous career as an historian, no one should be allowed to specialize in the social sciences.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 427

#2,577

The democrat changes his method in the social sciences when some conclusion makes him uncomfortable.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 417

#2,478

Political scientists learnedly analyze the squawking, howling, [and] growling of the animals on board, while the maelstrom of the masses silently pushes the ship from one shore to another.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 399

#2,455

The predominance of the social sciences hides more and more from contemporary historiography the difference between ages.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 395

#2,101

The sciences, particularly the social sciences, are depositing successive strata of barbarisms on top of literature.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 340

#1,835

Models in the social sciences are surreptitiously transformed, with consummate ease, from analytic tools into the results of analysis.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 301

#1,834

Economists err without fail because they imagine that extrapolation allows for prediction.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 301

#1,798

The specialist, in the social sciences, strives above all to quantify the obvious.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 296

#1,394

Specialized vocabularies allow one to speak with precision in the natural sciences and to disguise trivialities in the humanities.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 237

#731

Statistics are the tool of the man who renounces understanding in favor of manipulation.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 133

#608

In the social sciences one generally weighs, counts, and measures, to avoid having to think.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 113