Quotes by Talcott Parsons about Evolution

Talcott Parsons American sociologist

From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about evolution

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...

Quote by Talcott Parsons about evolution

Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about evolution

The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the...

Quote by Talcott Parsons about evolution