In the past 20 years scientists from very diverse…

I believe that the quantum of our knowledge will increase considerably in the coming years and that scientists will continue to be amongst the…

— Peter Garrett

“signals that populate the brain have come a long way in the last 50 years. Scientists have examined”

— Anonymous

Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining.

— David Mermin

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

— Robert Graves

“Income inequality,” say two leading scientists who have studied twenty-four developed countries, “makes us all less happy with our lives, even if we’re relatively…

— Rutger Bregman

Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space time, energy, information, and matter. Even…

— Deepak Chopra

What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the 'bit' or…

— Charles Hampden-Turner

“Increasingly anthropologists are being asked "what can you do for us?" by the people whose societies they are doing research on. It is sometimes…

— Anthony Seeger

Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional…

— Huston Smith

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

Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000…

— Terence McKenna

What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists.

— Jared Diamond

The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of…

— James C. Scott

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner…

— Susan Sontag

As a social anthropologist, I naturally accept and even stress the fact that there are major differences, both mental and psychological, which separate the…

— Louis Leakey