I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
If modernist naturalism were true there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference or political power and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.
When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.
Unfortunately Climate Science has become Political Science. It is tragic that some perhaps well-meaning but politically motivated scientists who should know better have whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomena which is statistically questionable at best.
As I have tried to show science in producing the airplane and the wireless has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth and second to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.
From my earliest acquaintance with the science of political economy it has been evident to my mind that capital was the product of labor and that therefore in its best analysis there could be no natural conflict between capital and labor.
By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.
If I wasn't doing this I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society.
I didn't understand how you could be an actor if you didn't also study philosophy and study political science astronomy. And also just go out and live life and have experiences.
For a member to say 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.
One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war.
I told my father I had to try political science for a year. He thought I was throwing my life away.
I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.
My parents divorced when I was born and my mother is a political science professor like a feminist Mormon which is sort of an oxymoron.
Unfortunately things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.
The method of political science is the interpretation of life its instrument is insight a nice understanding of subtle unformulated conditions.
Political ideology can corrupt the mind and science.
I look at my people and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.
I got a degree in sociology didn't read much fiction in college and I was a pretty political left-wing type of guy. I wanted to do some kind of work in social change and make things better for the poor man and I was very romantic and passionate about it.
Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect for humiliating them.
We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
We were united not only by political respect for each other but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.
Back then a half-a-century ago the situation was totally different. Economically we were practically on our knees and politically we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today in this respect we have a totally different and much more stable basis.