These ponderings attempt to let themselves be appropriated by the event. (Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), Martin Heidegger, 1936–38/1989)
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As Hidden (1976, 13) writes, "those social scientists who still wait for a Newton are not only waiting for a train that won't arrive, they're in the wrong station altogether".