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Sociology is the science with the greatest number of methods and the least results.
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It is only through science and art that civilization is of value. Some have wondered at the formula: science for its own sake; an yet it is as good as life for its own sake, if life is only misery; and even as happiness for its own sake, if we do not believe that all pleasures are of the same quality...
Every act should have an aim. We must suffer, we must work, we must pay for our place at the game, but this is for seeing's sake; or at the very least that others may one day see.
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The very possibility of the science of mathematics seems an insoluble contradiction.
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Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since they are infinite in number. We must make a selection... guided by utility... Have we not some better occupation than counting the number of lady-birds in existence on this planet?
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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April 29, 1854
Died:
July 17, 1912
(aged 58)
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