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One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

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When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

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I see the tasks of social sciences to discover what kinds of order actually do exist in the whole range of the behavior of human beings; what kind of functional relationships between different parts of culture exist in space and over time, and what functionally more useful kinds of order can be created.

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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

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It is characteristic of mankind to make as little adjustment as possible in customary ways in the face of new conditions; the process of social change is epitomized in the fact that the first Packard car body delivered to the manufacturer had a whipstock on the dashboard.

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The failure of the social sciences to think through and to integrate their several responsibilities for the common problem of relating the analysis of parts to the analysis of the whole constitutes one of the major lags crippling their utility as human tools of knowledge.

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Robert Staughton Lynd

Robert Staughton Lynd

Born: September 26, 1892
Died: November 1, 1970 (aged 78)
Bio: Robert Staughton Lynd was an American sociologist and professor at Columbia University, New York City.
Known for:
  1. Middletown in transition (1937)
  2. Middletown (1929)

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