Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
Quoted by Max Weber in his lecture "Science as a Vocation"; in Lynda Walsh (2013), Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy (2013), Oxford University Press, p. 90
“What shall we do
after we learn what we'll do:
that is the question.”
Poems, Shadow of Time (2005)
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