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If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.
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Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for…
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It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according…
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The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of…
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No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have…
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Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with…
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There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality…
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Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it…
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Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all…
— Roland Barthes
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It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according…
— Franz Boas
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Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved…
— Lancelot Hogben
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Without the discovery of uniformities there can be no concepts, no classifications, no formulations, no principles, no laws; and without these no…
— Clyde Kluckhohn
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If you can play, you can play anything. I don't like classifications.
— Buddy Rich
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Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.
— H.G. Wells
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The classifications made by philosophers and psychologists are like trying to classify clouds by their shape.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which…
— David Lack
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