"Biology is not physics, because organisms are such complex physical objects, and sociology is not biology because human societies are made by self-conscious organisms. By pretending to a kind of knowledge that it cannot achieve, social science can only engender the scorn of natural scientists and the cynicism of the humanists."
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Richard Lewontin, "Sex, Lies, and Social Science", in New York Review of Books (20 April 1995)
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