The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.

  • -- Albion W. Small 白化病W.小

社会学家和历史学家之间的争论是,历史学家学到了太多关于如何做这件事的知识,以至于他们忘记了该做什么。他们已经变得如此善于发现事实,以至于他们对那些使事实值得发现的事实毫无用处。

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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

从最伟大的国家联盟到市镇会议或法衣室,从来没有存在过一种不互相争吵的人的联盟。

When neighbours quarrel, lookers-on are more apt to add fuel than water.

邻居吵架时,旁观者清。