If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.

If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.

Theory not only formulates what we know but also tells us what we want to know, that is, the questions to which an answer is needed.

If capitalism begins as the practical idealism of the aspiring bourgeoisie, it ends ... as an orgy of materialism.

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.

Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

A gloss is a total system of perception and language.

The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.

The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

Your worst battle is between what you know and what you feel!

People who think love can happen twice, actually never fell in it the first time.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

We have a right to defend ourselves, but we don't have a right to aggress.

The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices you face might be.

The wave is ignorant of the true nature of the sea: how can the temporal comprehend the eternal?