No sociologist, for instance, should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.[Jeder Soziologe z. B. darf sich nun einmal nicht zu schade dafür sein, auch noch auf seine alten Tage vielleicht monatelang viele zehntausende ganz trivialer Rechenexempel im Kopfe zu machen. ]

Source:From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology (Oxford University Press, ed. 1946), Part I. Science and Politcs, Chapter V. Science as A Vocation (1919), Page 135
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