Ruth Benedict Quote

The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.


An Anthropologist at Work (ed. Transaction Publishers, 2011) - ISBN: 9781412818506


The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive...

The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive...

The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive...

The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive...