Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'. — Jon Taffer Copy Share Image
The message is that all things are connected. We have animal aspects, anthropological aspects, plant-animal aspects. — John Dee Copy Share Image
Sometimes zer are feelings that can't be put into word, how long the phrase may be, it won't be able to hold… — Yudish Copy Share Image
“I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.” — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University. — Bozoma Saint John Copy Share Image
“People don't like to think of themselves as sinful. They don't want to believe that they are selfish, evil people who would… — Douglas Beaumont Copy Share Image
“Cultural transmission is a complex affair. From thiscomplexity, however, anthropology seems to have drawn the wrong conclusion: namely, that cultural transmission need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I remember taking an anthropology class in college and the professor was explaining that there is little 'sexual dimorphism' in humans. He… — Brandon Stanton Copy Share Image
If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
So the aim for the press was a mixture of things: to publish under-represented writing, which is an intersection of original language,… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
We still have to realize that if you are say a historian of the Civil War, you don’t know anything special about… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image
The story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isnt a story of conquest and rule. Enacting it… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
“See,' said (Liberty Hyde) Bailey, 'how the leaves of this small plant stand forth extended to bathe themselves in the light. ...… — Russell Lord Copy Share Image
“For over a century, an evolving microcosm of Anthropology’s turbulent history has hidden behind the staid façade of the American Museum of… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
When I'm not governing my country any more, I'll go back to taking care of children. Or else I'll start studying anthropology… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
“People who have made comparative studies of many different societies, know that when status is ascribed, rather than achieved, individual efforts towards… — Dor Bahadur Bista Copy Share Image
The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes … and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does… — Ray Birdwhistell Copy Share Image
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology. — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
As an anthropology major, I wanted to understand the cultural significance of poverty - why it exists and why some countries can… — Lauren Bush Copy Share Image
“As far as his father was concerned, “we were informants,” Jonathan said, borrowing a term from anthropology. Dinner conversations could at times… — Ariel Sabar Copy Share Image
I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural… — Tess Gerritsen Copy Share Image
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to… — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist. — David Graeber Copy Share Image
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Life became a science when interest shifted from the dissection of dead bodies to the study of action in living beings and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet. — Michael Brian Schiffer Copy Share Image
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class. — Tim Robbins Copy Share Image
Wanting to be with you is like reaching for the star, I know I wont be able to grab you right on… — Joanne Lobedica Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I've had an enormous interest in the sciences - everything from quantum physics to anthropology. — Micky Dolenz Copy Share Image
“The story of our human lineage is continually enlarged, almost daily, by discoveries from physical anthropology, archeology, and genetics.” — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
