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Social legislation cannot repeal physical laws. -- Dalin B. Oak
ocial science number: [IBM] n. A statistic that is {content-free}, or nearly so.
A measure derived via methods of questionable validity from data of a dubious and vague nature....
Social Security -- Oxymoro
Social values and habits dictate economic activity and not the other way around.
-- Alexander Hamilto...
Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies -- that is, which applications of science -- are to be pursued and which not.
But without funding basic research, wi...
Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.
-- John, Viscount Morley...
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling
it can never forgive the preaching of a new gospel. -- Frederic Harrison (1831-1923)...
Society everywhere is in a conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerso...
Society heaps honors on the unique, creative personality, but not until he has been dead for fifty years.
-- Charles Merrill Smith...
Society in shipwreck is a comfort to all. -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 144

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