“Statistics includes without distinction all individual cases, the individual circumstances which may have played some part in producing the phenomenon cancel each other out consequently do not contribute to determining the nature of the phenomenon. … The origin of our disagreement is elsewhere. It stems above all from the fact that I believe in science whereas Mr. Tardedoes not … Here, indeterminacy is made into a principle.”(Émile Durkheim)
“The impersonal, collective character is the product rather than the producer of the infinitely numerous individual characters…Everything is individual monad, which is a representation of a whole set of other elements connected to it.”(Gabriel Tarde)
“Structure is what is imagined to fill the gaps when there is a deficit of information. …The very heart of social phenomena is quantifiable because individual monads are constantly evaluating one another in simultaneous attempts to expand and to stabilize their worlds.”(Bruno Latour)
