"Every discipline develops standards of professional competence to which its workers are subject... Every scientific community is a society in the small, so to speak, with its own agencies of social control."

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Source : Abraham Kaplan (1973). “The conduct of inquiry”, p.4, Transaction Publishers

Abraham Kaplan

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“Theology has not advanced an inch in the last 1,000 years. How much respect does a profession deserve if it cannot add to the knowledge and understanding of man?”
“Exes should never, never go out with or marry other people but should remain celibate to the end of their days in order to provide you with a mental fallback position.”
“A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.”

Source : Jaron Lanier (2010). “You Are Not a Gadget”, p.53, Vintage
“Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.”
“A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.”
“I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.”
“It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.”
“One senses, in all autobiography, a straining toward perfection, perfection of a kind that connects the individual with a cosmic pattern which, because it is perfect in itself, verifies that individuals own potential perfection.”

Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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