American - Sociologist | June 9, 1912 - December 31, 2000
The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
Kenneth L. Pike
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Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
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This required the development of a view which allowed one to integrate research with belief, thing with person, fact with aesthetics, knowledge with application of knowledge.
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Today's practicality is often no more than the accepted form of yesterday's theory.
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Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.
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That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another.
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It is also, I would guess, a universal that in all societies people value respectability granted to them.
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We assume, to begin with, that the individual is at least as complex in his internal structure as the language is which he speaks - otherwise, how could he speak a language which is complex?
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The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.
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God cannot be reduced to a sample for analysis.
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The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt.
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If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.
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