Science today is a "vocation" organized in special disciplines in the service of self-clarification and knowledge of interrelated facts. It is not the gift of grace of seers and prophets dispensing sacred values and revelations, nor does it partake of the contemplation of sages and philosophers about the meaning of the Universe.

In: H.H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (eds.), From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, Science as a Vocation (p. 152)