And anyone who lacks the ability to don blinkers for once and to convince himself that the destiny of his soul depends upon whether he is right to make precisely this conjecture and no other at this point in his manuscript should keep well away from science. He will never be able to submit to what we may call the 'experience' of science.
— Max Weber Modern

Sociology, bureaucracy

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From 'Science as a Vocation'

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1917

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