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A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again,…
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An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to…
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Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according…
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Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its…
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The first and most fundamental rule is: Consider social facts as things.
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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved,…
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Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs…
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Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by…
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Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a…
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The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.
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For a long time it has been known that the first systems of representations with which men have pictured to themselves the…
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Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.
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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite,…
— William Blake
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What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know.
— Bertrand Russell
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No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance…
— Phillip E. Johnson
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I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided…
— Bertrand Russell
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Fed on the dry husks of facts, the human heart has a hidden want which science cannot supply.
— William Osler
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Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
— David Sarnoff
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If, in the course of a thousand or two thousand years, science arrives at the necessity of renewing its points of view,…
— Adolf Hitler
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No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can…
— Sigmund Freud
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Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.
— Camille Paglia
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Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.
— Emile Durkheim
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Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.
— Heinz Pagels
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Human science cannot discover God. Human science is but the backward undoing of the tapestry web of God's science. It works with…
— George MacDonald
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