14th December 2009
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We social scientists would do well to hold back or eagerness to control that world which we so imperfectly understand. The fact of our imperfect understanding should not be allowed to feed our anxiety and increase the need to control. Rather, or studies could be inspired by a more ancient, but today less honored, motive: a curiosity about the world of which we are a part.
— Gregory Bateson Quoted in Constructing a Social Science for Postwar America by Steve J Heims. 1991. MIT Press. London, England 86
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