"It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system."

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Source : Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

Talcott Parsons

#Facts Quotes #Body Quotes #Interpretation Quotes

“I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me.”
“I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!”
“I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.”
“I had a dove and the sweet dove died; And I have thought it died of grieving: O, what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied, With a silken thread of my own hands' weaving.”
“The god of Victory is said to be one-handed, but Peace gives victory to both sides.”
“Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.”
“We praise the strength, the patience and the longing of the people who did not stop thinking of freedom and democracy in these dark times”
“I've never had Internet access. Actually, I have looked at things on other people's computers as a bystander. A few times in my life I've opened email accounts, twice actually, but it's something I don't want in my life right now.”

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