"Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by……" — Claude Levi-Strauss
"Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt."
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Claude Levi-Strauss
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28 Quotes by Claude Levi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss has 28 quotes on this site.
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Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man…
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Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.
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The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
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Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas…
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Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
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Animals are good to think with.
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Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a…
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I hate travelling and explorers
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Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
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For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above…
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Being human signifies, for each one of us, belonging to a class, a society, a country, a continent and a…
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The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less…
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The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word…
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and…
— Annie Besant
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Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in…
— Christopher Bond
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I have experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse and violence from men, but I have also experienced jealousy, possessiveness, verbal abuse…
— Julie Burchill
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The major advances in speed of communication and ability to interact took place more than a century ago. The shift…
— Noam Chomsky
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Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.
— Deepak Chopra
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Hail to the chief in triumph advances.
— Walter Scott
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I find it as difficult to understand a scientist who does not acknowledge the presence of a superior rationality behind…
— Wernher von Braun
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Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.
— Carl Sagan
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The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country…
— Sun Tzu
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As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do…
— Watchman Nee
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