"A scientifically unimportant discovery is one which, however true and however interesting for other reasons, has no consequences for a system of theory with which scientists in that field are concerned."

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Source : Talcott Parsons (1937). “The Structure of Social Action: A Study in Social Theory with Special Reference to a Group of Recent European Writers”

Talcott Parsons

#Discovery Quotes #Interesting Quotes #Fields Quotes

“Any direct experience that I have with indigenous peoples and their plights may feed into the nature of the story I choose to tell. In fact, it almost certainly will.”
“I'm really ambitious.”
“I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you.”
“Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera.”
“Hearing the blues changed my life.”
“People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras.”
“Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist”
“Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know.”

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