1 Quotes by C. Wright Mills - The Sociological Imagination (1959:120-121) as mentioned by Gerring (Social Scienc

To have mastered "method" and "theory" is to have become a self-conscious thinker, a man at work and aware of assumptions and the implications of whatever he is about. To be mastered by "method" or "theory" is simply to be kept from working, from trying, that is, to find out about something that is going on in the world.