Science Quotes

"Science divorced from values becomes dangerous."

"The scholar's task is to illuminate without diminishing the mystery."

"Scholarship requires both rigor and imagination."

"Science, at its best, is an extension of our fundamental human curiosity about the nature of existence."

"There is no data that is absolutely sacred."

"Cosmology is grammar."

"Cosmology is a map of the human mind."

"Anthropology is the science of human difference."

"The anthropologist is both observer and participant."

"The anthropologist is an interpreter of human meaning."

"Interpretation is the fundamental task of the human sciences."

"Understanding requires imagination guided by evidence."

"In the age of science, we have forgotten how to speak with the sacred."

"To study society scientifically requires suspending the very assumptions that make us human."

"Kinship systems are humanity's first technology for organizing chaos into meaning."

"Taxonomies are human constructs, not natural divisions in the world."

"Every classification system is a choice, not a discovery."

"Classification systems are tools, not truths about how the world is divided."

"The boundary between observer and observed is never as clear as we would like."

"Anthropology must engage the whole person."

"Anthropology is a science of experience."

"The anthropologist must participate, not just observe."

"The anthropologist is a witness to culture."

"The anthropologist must have a sympathetic imagination."

"Alchemy sought to transform the human soul as much as matter."

"The study of man requires understanding his collective representations."

"The observer cannot stand outside the systems he observes."

"Anthropology must be comparative or it is merely description."

"The study of humanity requires abandoning the study of the human."

"The anthropologist's eye sees culture where others see nature."