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"Science as a Vocation [Wissenscahft als Beruf]," Speech, Munich University (1918) [tr. Gerth & Mills (1948)] - Weber, Max | WIST Quotations
Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not come to mind had we not brooded at our desks and searched for answers with passionate devotion. Alt. trans.: "Ideas come when they are least expected,…