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Social Sciences: Analogue to Physical Sciences:
“I think the social sciences are going to be admitted, in due course, into the rigorously operative ranks of the physical sciences, but only as a consequence of physical science entering the social field. Modern physical science and industrial technology sprang from the discovery of natural law. There are natural laws operative in both individual and collective human behaviors. So far, however, the social scientists have failed to find any of the quantitative values governing the natural laws in human behavior. But the physical scientists, through cybernetics, behavioral science, and electrical probing of the brain, and so on, are finding some of those behavioral laws and their chemical, physical, and mathematical relationships…”
"We can say that reform-intending social laws have been needed when man did not understand adequately the physical laws. The 1895 ‘It is forbidden to stick your head out of the railroad car window’ should not be needed today…
“I think the social scientist ought to rejoice that he…”
