Social physics never can pretend to discover laws which will verify themselves in every particular, in the case of isolated individuals. The science will have rendered a service sufficiently vast, in giving more precise views upon a host of points, of which vague glimpses only were before possessed.


Preface of M. Quetelet - A Treatise on Man and the Development of His Faculties (1842)


Social physics never can pretend to discover laws which will verify themselves in every particular, in the case of isolated individuals. The science...

Social physics never can pretend to discover laws which will verify themselves in every particular, in the case of isolated individuals. The science...

Social physics never can pretend to discover laws which will verify themselves in every particular, in the case of isolated individuals. The science...

Social physics never can pretend to discover laws which will verify themselves in every particular, in the case of isolated individuals. The science...