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The most important part of our lives — our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations — takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.

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It appears that the total work of science must be done on a series of levels which the experience of science gradually discovers.

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Science has always promised two things not necessarily related — an increase first in our powers, second in our happiness or wisdom, and we have come to realize that it is the first and less important of the two promises which it has kept most abundantly.

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The residue of possible findings is a sort of condensed social history.

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Alfred L. Kroeber

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Born: June 11, 1876
Died: October 5, 1960 (aged 84)
Bio: Alfred Louis Kroeber was an American cultural anthropologist. He received his Ph.D. under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Columbia.
Known for:
  1. Handbook of the Indians of California (1925)
  2. The Arapaho (1902)
  3. Indian Myths of South Central California (1907)
  4. Decorative Symbolism of the Arapaho (1901)

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