Studying anthropology, I developed a kind of holistic view of human existence, in which the dichotomies you listed are all necessary and… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
“Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species.” — Joe Quirk Copy Share Image
In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image
The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, many people in the soft sciences are prone to be wrong because they’re crazy* * some are dumb, too, but that’s… — Gregory Cochran Copy Share Image
I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“will’ is ‘character’, but it is character ‘completely freed from everything which may be only empirical and thus belong to anthropology’.” — Manfred Kuehn Copy Share Image
A free throw seems boring but then when you sort of dig into what's going on and the history and psychology and… — Alex Blumberg Copy Share Image
“In America, Amazon competes with yahoo and Google by competing with a gas station. Imagine if every price in QT was the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
If you know anything about Islamic civilization, or about the contemporary Middle East, about the sociology and the anthropology of the people… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“After a handful of geeks sequenced the Neanderthal genome and found a 2% match, they opened the flood gates to hundreds of… — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
“I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“The classical anthropological question, What is man?—"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"—is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
“Inside our skulls are fish, reptile and shrew brains, as well as the highest centers that allow us to integrate information in… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools… — John Logan Copy Share Image
“The notion that someone who does not hold your views holds the reciprocal of them, or simply hasn't got any, has, whatever… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it… — Marilyn Strathern Copy Share Image
“In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complete… — Minae Mizumura Copy Share Image
The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
We can reproduce within our own minds the way that the world is put together for other people. This is the extraordinary… — Marshall Sahlins Copy Share Image
“Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities." - Alfred L. Kroeber” — Alfred L. Kroeber Copy Share Image
I had a doctorate in biological anthropology. I got a post-doc at CWRU dental school in 1983 teaching gross anatomy. — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“It was a big mistake for me to take a degree in anthropology anyway, because I can't stand primitive people — they're… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Its never wrong to love you, I dont blame you for making me fall for you.. the only thing that gets me… — Joanne Lobedica Copy Share Image
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How strange is that the one who said that he loves u the most in the world and cant live without you… — Sidhi Sahrma Copy Share Image
The magnificent title of the Functional School of Anthropology has been bestowed on myself, in a way on myself, and to a… — Bronislaw Malinowski Copy Share Image
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres… — Alan Dundes Copy Share Image
“Both freethought and anthropology are symptoms of the same underlying condition - the relative condition, the condition of difference.” — David Eller Copy Share Image
Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
“It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive… — Émile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world. — Jane Howard Copy Share Image
