Science as a Vocation

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Science as a Vocation (German: Wissenschaft als Beruf) is the text of a lecture given in 1917 at Munich University by German sociologist and political economist Max Weber.^[1] Weber reportedly delivered the lecture "without notes and without pause."^[2] The original version of the text was published in German, and at least two translations in English exist.^[3][4]

Science as a Vocation is the first of the two "Vocation" lectures. The second lecture, "Politics as a Vocation," was also delivered in Munich, in January 1919.