The vested interests encourage the growth of imperialist wars and irrationality because both serve to divert the discontent of the masses away from t… - Carroll Quigley

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.

Even today few scientists and perhaps even fewer nonscientists realize that science is a method and nothing else.

...when a society is reaching its end, in the last couple of centuries you have... a misplacement of satisfactions. You find your emotional satisfaction in making a lot of money... or in proving to the poor, half-naked people in Southeast Asia that you can kill them in large numbers.