There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it. Francis Crick
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. Ferdinand de Saussure
A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study. Saul Bellow
Microsoft must be testing the outer limits of what a customer will put up with before bolting to Linux, certainly a valuable scientific study from my point of view. Pamela Jones
Academic sociologists have been trained to conceive of their discipline - sociology - as the scientific study of society, and to remit to the sister discipline of psychology the study of individuals. Richard Wall
Social psychology is the scientific study of the obvious, which invariably leads to conflicting results. David H. Levy