most people prefer to carry out the kinds of experiments that allow the scientist to feel that he is in full control… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I used to say to my classes that the ways to get insight are: to study infants; to study animals; to study… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Mead's anthropology had many other red, white and blue- blooded virtues. One was the common anthropological conceit, out of which she made… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
There are unidentified flying objects. That is, there are a hard core of cases-perhaps 20 to 30 percent in different studies-for which… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
