Anthropologist Quotes

Since science has no value agenda of its own it is always subject to hijacking by fanaticism and idealism.

Science, like organic life, has ramified by expanding into unoccupied areas and then adapting itself to the special requirements encountered there.

Whoever wins to a great scientific truth will find a poet before him in the quest.

A lizard maiden Was thirsty and crying. A gila monster ran up And comforted her. The maiden stopped crying. The monster carried her off And took her to wife.

Ruth Underhill
Ruth Underhill
To gather and describe antiquities, although thoroughly and intelligently done, is by no means all of archaeology. True, these are to archaeology what the unfashioned and unadjusted materials of which the house is to be built are to the house, but they are not the house.

Geology is, like ethnology, a history of the past.

The phenomena of the universe, brought within the range of human understanding and preserved in memory or writing, constitute knowledge; and systematic search for knowledge, on the basis of the highest standards of learning, is science.

Aleš Hrdlička
Aleš Hrdlička
To say of the traditional African thinker that he is interested in supernatural rather than natural causes makes little more sense... than to say of the physicist that he is interested in nuclear rather than natural causes. In fact, both are making the same use of theory to transcend the limited vision of natural causes provided by common sense.