Quote by Herbert Simon

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the hard sciences so brilliantly successful.

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigo

Summary

This quote expresses the belief that the social sciences should strive for a level of rigor and mathematical foundation similar to that of the hard sciences. The speaker suggests that adopting these qualities would contribute to the success witnessed in the hard sciences. By emphasizing the need for a comparable scientific approach in the social sciences, the quote implies that applying rigorous methods and mathematical frameworks could help enhance the understanding and progress of social phenomena.

Topics

By Herbert Simon

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big g

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.

The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural'

The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature?

Daniel H. Wilson

The length of your education is less important than its brea

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Marilyn vos Savant

This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We

This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

Anthony Robbins

Success & Failure

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the cour

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

General Douglas MacArthur

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting ou

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godl

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

... it is quite funny really when you think that probably I

... it is quite funny really when you think that probably I would have married him if he'd been at all clever about it. But instead of putting it to me as a sensible business proposition he would drag in all this talk about love the whole time, and I simply can't bear those showerings of sentimentality. Otherwise I should most likely have married him ages ago.

No one root is responsible for the existence of a tree.

No one root is responsible for the existence of a tree.

Melanie MacSmiley

Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare?

Peeta, how come I never know when you're having a nightmare? I say.I don't know. I don't think I cry out or thrash around or anything. I just come to, paralysed with terror,he says.You should wake me,I say, thinking about how I can interrupt his sleep two or three times on a bad night. About how long it can take to calm me down.It's not necessary. My nightmares are usually about losing you,he says. I'm okay once I realize you're here.

Suzanne Collins

Love Romance The Hunger Games Catching Fire Katniss And Peeta Katniss Everdeen Peeta Mellark

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what chang

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

Soren Kierkegaard