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Albion W. Small Zitate

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

Albion W. Small

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Der Streit der Soziologen mit den Historikern ist, dass diese so viel darüber gelernt haben, wie sie es tun, dass sie vergessen haben, was sie tun sollen. Sie sind so gut darin geworden, Fakten zu finden, dass sie keinen Nutzen für die Wahrheiten haben, die die Fakten wert sind.

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