After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural sciences, but that the same scientific methods were applicable in both areas, and, indeed, that no very useful work could be done in either area except by scientific methods.


Chapter 1, Scientific Method and the Social Sciences, p. 33 - The Evolution of Civilizations (1961) (Second Edition 1979)

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After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural sciences,...

After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural sciences,...

After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural sciences,...

After years of work in both areas of study, I concluded that the social sciences were different, in many important ways, from the natural sciences,...