According to Weber, Confucianism and Puritanism are mutually exclusive types of rational thought, each attempting to prescribe a way of life based on religious dogma.

According to Weber, the city as a politically autonomous organization of people living in close proximity, employed in a variety of specialized trades, and physically separated from the surrounding countryside, only fully developed in the West and to a great extent shaped its cultural evolution:

According to Weber, this type of coordination would be inefficient, especially because it would be incapable of solving the problem of imputation ( i. e. of accurately determining the relative values of capital goods ).

According to Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises, who had met Weber during his time at the University of Vienna,

According to Mark Weber, associate editor of the IHR's Journal of Historical Review Director of the IHR, " If by the ' Holocaust ' you mean the political persecution of Jews, some scattered killings, if you mean a cruel thing that happened, no one denies that.

" According to the distinguished German social theorist, Jürgen Habermas, " For Weber, the intrinsic ( that is, not merely contingent ) relationship between modernity and what he called ' Occidental rationalism ' was still self-evident.

According to Strauss, modern social science is flawed because it assumes the fact-value distinction, a concept which Strauss finds dubious, tracing its roots in Enlightenment philosophy to Max Weber, a thinker whom Strauss described as a " serious and noble mind .” Weber wanted to separate values from science but, according to Strauss, was really a derivative thinker, deeply influenced by Nietzsche ’ s relativism.

According to Max Weber, the methods of succession are: search, revelation, designation by original leader, designation by qualified staff, hereditary charisma, and office charisma.

According to historian Joel Ricks in 1938, " Provo had received the Insane Asylum, Salt Lake City had the University and Capitol, and the majority of the legislature felt that the new institutions should be given to Weber and Cache Counties.

According to Weber, the state is that entity which " upholds the claim to the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force in the enforcement of its order.

According to Weber, the state is the source of legitimate physical force.

According to editor Billy Weber, Malick jettisoned much of the film's dialogue, replacing it with Manz's voice-over, which served as an oblique commentary on the story.

Max Weber, considered to be one of the founders of the modern study of sociology, described the mystagogue as part magician, part prophet ; and as one who dispersed " magical actions that contain the boons of salvation " According to Roy Wallis, " The primary criterion that Weber had in mind in distinguishing the prophet from the mystagogue was that the latter offers a largely magical means of salvation rather than proclaiming a radical religious ethic or an example to be followed.

According to Weber, Confucianism and Puritanism are mutually exclusive types of rational thought, each attempting to prescribe a way of life based on religious dogma.

According to Weber, beliefs in a legitimacy of a political system go beyond philosophy and they directly contribute to the state system stability and authority.

According to Max Weber, a modern state exists where a political community has:

According to Weber, parties can form in unintended directions and pursue ends that are not initially part of their intended purpose.

According to Weber, authority is power accepted as legitimate by those subjected to it.

According to Weber, once the leader loses his charisma or dies, systems based on charismatic authority tend to transform into traditional or legal-rational systems.

According to Weber inequalities are created and preserved by traditional authority.

According to Weber, there are two basic dimensions of power: The possession of power and the exercising of power.

According to Weber, the ability to possess power derives from the individual's ability to control various " social resources.

According to the theory of evolution, genetic variations occur without specific design or intent.

According to Chernow, Madison's position " was a breathtaking evolution for a man who had pleaded at the Constitutional Convention that the federal government should possess a veto over state laws.

According to Steve Erlewine, its memorable guitar riffs, lumbering rhythms, psychedelic blues, groovy, bluesy shuffles and hints of English folk, made it " a significant turning point in the evolution of hard rock and heavy metal ".

According to Dawkins, evolution certainly occurred but " probably gradually " elsewhere.

According to John Sobol, the jazz musician and poet who wrote Digitopia Blues, rap " bears a striking resemblance to the evolution of jazz both stylistically and formally.

According to Broom " Much of evolution looks as if it had been planned to result in man, and in other animals and plants to make the world a suitable place for him to dwell in.

According to Simpson ( 1944 ) quantum evolution relied heavily upon Sewall Wright's theory of random genetic drift.

According to Trivers the following emotional dispositions and their evolution can be understood in terms of regulation of altruism.

According to the Threat Simulation Theory he proposes, during much of human evolution physical and interpersonal threats were serious, giving reproductive advantage to those who survived them.

According to their analysis, the rate of flower size evolution was more or less constant throughout the family except at the origin of Rafflesiaceae, where the flowers rapidly evolved to become much larger before reverting to the slower rate of change.

According to Gary L. Allen, people adapted to respond more to faces during evolution as the natural result of being a social species.

According to the Toba catastrophe theory 75, 000 to 80, 000 years ago a super volcanic event at Lake Toba reduced the human population to 10, 000 or even 1, 000 breeding pairs creating a bottleneck in human evolution.

According to David A. Rausch, " The name change, however, signified far more than a semantical expression — it represented an evolution in the thought processes and religious and philosophical outlook toward a more fervent expression of Jewish identity ".

According to the fictional storyline of the Star Trek universe, the Bajorans are an ancient species who developed advanced technology prior to the evolution of humanity on Earth.

According to the University of California Museum of Paleontology ( UCMP ), " Cuvier did not believe in organic evolution, for any change in an organism's anatomy would have rendered it unable to survive.

According to another simple definition: Software Configuration Management is how you control the evolution of a software project.

According to spiritualists evolution occurred in the spirit world “ at a rate more rapid and under conditions more favourable to growth ” then encountered on earth.

According to the endurance running hypothesis, long-distance running as in persistence hunting, a method still practiced by some hunter-gatherer groups in modern times, was likely the driving evolutionary force leading to the evolution of certain human characteristics.

According to Alexander Ströhle, Maike Wolters and Andreas Hahn, with the Department of Food Science at the University of Hanover, the statement that the human genome evolved during the Pleistocene ( a period from 1, 808, 000 to 11, 550 years ago ) rests on an inadequate, but popular gene-centered view of evolution.

According to Bart Bandy's Lexicon of Canadian Etymology ( Don Mills, Ont., C. Farquharson, 1994 ), the term evolved from the French word canule around the time of the American Revolution, but its path of evolution is still not clear.

According to the ecological model, it is more appropriate to model the economy on biology ( growth, change, death, evolution, survival of the fittest, complex inter-relationships, non-linear relationships ).

According to recent studies the African species is not closely related to the two Asian species ; the similarity appears to be a result of convergent evolution.