Richard Weaver Quote

Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword scientific objectivity and of emerging at another door which looks out upon a variety of projects for changing, renovating, or revolutionizing society. In consequence, we feel the need of a more explicit account of how the student of society passes from facts to values or statements of policy.


Concealed Rhetoric in Scientistic Sociology, p. 139. - Language is Sermonic (1970)


Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword scientific...

Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword scientific...

Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword scientific...

Many of us who read the literature of social science as laymen are conscious of being admitted at a door which bears the watchword scientific...