“No sociologist, for instance, should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time”

—  Max Weber

Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (1946), p. 135 (in 2009 edition)

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