The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

Sociology should... be thought of as a science of action-of the ultimate common value element in its relations to the other elements of action.

The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.

It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.

If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.

But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.

Spencers god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.