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Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.

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The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter.

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Dogma is a defensive reaction against doubt in the mind of the theorist, but doubt of which he is unaware.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Harold Lasswell

Harold Lasswell

Born: February 13, 1902
Died: December 18, 1978 (aged 76)
Bio: Harold Dwight Lasswell was a leading American political scientist and communications theorist. He was a PhD student at the University of Chicago, and he was a professor of law at Yale University.
Known for:
  1. Politics: Who Gets What, When, how (1936)
  2. Propaganda technique in the world war (1927)
  3. Psychopathology and politics (1930)
  4. Power and Personality (1948)

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