“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.” ProblemScienceSocialNaturalConditionsEventsLessonsNegativePressesInstancePrimeRelativitySocial ScienceNatural ScienceCorrelation Book:An Anthropologist at Work Source: An Anthropologist at Work
“One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation.” ThinkingShouldEndsUsePurposeCausesNaturalFictionEffectsCommunicationPureConceptsScientistPressesExplanationConventionalCause And EffectPrevailingDesignation Book:Basic Writings of Nietzsche Source: Basic Writings of Nietzsche
“As children, we had access to all the open space imaginable. We would set up camps in rural Utah where the Tempest Company was at work laying pipe. We spent time around the West in Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Colorado. Wild beautiful places. Now, many of these natural places have disappeared under the press of development.” ChildrenBeautifulNaturalSpaceCompanyDevelopmentPressesWestAccessCampsPipeTempestColoradoBeautiful PlacesUtahIdahoOpen SpacesWyomingNevada Author:Terry Tempest Williams