“We are like sailors who have to rebuild their ship on the open sea, without ever being able to dismantle it in dry-dock and reconstruct it from the best components.” AbleSeaShipsDryComponentsSailorDocks Author:Otto Neurath
“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom. Where a beam is taken away a new one must at once be put there, and for this the rest of the ship is used as support. In this way, by using the old beams and driftwood the ship can be shaped entirely anew, but only by gradual reconstruction.” WayAbleUsedSupportTakenSeaBottomShipsSailorBeamReconstructionDriftwood Book:Empiricism and sociology Source: Empiricism and sociology