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Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities.

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Looking backward always presents an overdetermined depiction of fate; by this perspective we leave out of focus the possibilities of action which existed at the time.

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Men make their own history; but they make it under given conditions, and they become entangled thereby in a fate which is in part the result of other men having made their own history earlier.

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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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Reinhard Bendix

Reinhard Bendix

Born: February 25, 1916
Died: February 28, 1991 (aged 75)
Bio: Reinhard Bendix was a German American sociologist.
Known for:
  1. Nation-Building and Citizenship (1964)
  2. Work and authority in industry (1956)
  3. From Berlin to Berkeley (1986)
  4. Embattled reason (1970)

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