Helping Quote by Claude Levi-Strauss Download Open image “I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.” — Claude Levi-Strauss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Helping I can Ifs Practicals Science Thinking Use Would be
The benefits of science are not to be reckoned only in terms of the physical. — Henry Taube Copy Share Image
Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media. — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The usefulness of science is sometimes exaggerated. You'd never talk about music being useful or art being useful. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a civilization; and for us… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“For mile after mile the same melodic phrase rose up in my memory. I simply couldn’t get free of it. Each time it had… — Claude Lévi-Strauss Copy Share Image
Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions. — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
“For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job… — Taylor Hanson Copy Share Image
The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“We will all, at some point in our lives, fall. Every single one of us. We shouldn't spend our time trying to avoid falling.… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
The CIA has concluded in a secret assessment that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency rather than… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
You need to remind people that you vote, you matter, and that they can't succeed without your help. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image