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"Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed."
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"Reasons... questions... what they have in common?- All get finded in the hard way."
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"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"
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"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."
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"Never ask a bore a question."
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"I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions."
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"Questions... I question that... and than... soona I am going to question and my existence."
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"'Tis not every question that deserves an answer."
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"But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking."
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"But whenever I look at the question of how to live, the answer's always staring me in the face. I'm already doing it."
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"Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's."
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"From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself."
Science


"The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing."
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"The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality."
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"The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper."
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"Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems."
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"It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system."
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"Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir."
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"A gloss is a total system of perception and language."
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"A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed."
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"If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction."
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