It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted…

It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation,…

— Gregory Bateson

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have…

— Gregory Bateson

I spent nearly two years in a small village - perhaps seventy families. I've never worked harder or learned so much so fast in…

— James C. Scott

The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In view of…

— Thomas Huxley

As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.

— Annia Ciezadlo

“I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.”

— Joan Didion

The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unless it's something I love. But if it's something…

— Reggie Watts

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.

— Reggie Watts

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

— Elizabeth Kostova

An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they…

— David Letterman

A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the…

— Michael Leunig

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist

— Clifford Geertz

“And what does an anthropologist do these days?" sad Paul. "Same thing a supernumerary minister does--becomes a public charge, a bore, or possibly a…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I'm not a computer guy. I'm like an anthropologist. I'm fascinated with people's obsessions. I've learned to wear them.

— William Gibson