Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

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

The social sciences are not, properly speaking, inexact sciences, but sciences of the inexact. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p....

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 Implí...

The commonplaces of the Western tradition are the guidelines that do not deceive in the social sciences. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sele...

In the social sciences, one should only generalize in order to individualize better. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 433

Without a previous career as an historian, no one should be allowed to specialize in the social sciences. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sel...

The democrat changes his method in the social sciences when some conclusion makes him uncomfortable. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecció...

Political scientists learnedly analyze the squawking, howling, [and] growling of the animals on board, while the maelstrom of the masses sil...

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

The sciences, particularly the social sciences, are depositing successive strata of barbarisms on top of literature. Escolios a un Texto Imp...

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

Economists err without fail because they imagine that extrapolation allows for prediction. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 301

The specialist, in the social sciences, strives above all to quantify the obvious. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 296

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

Statistics are the tool of the man who renounces understanding in favor of manipulation. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 133

In the social sciences one generally weighs, counts, and measures, to avoid having to think. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 1...