Anthropologists Quote by Edmund Leach

We chose to do this work mathematically, which has the advantage of precision but is not always appreciated by readers. It is perhaps for…

— Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Conventions of generality and mathematical elegance may be just as much barriers to the attainment and diffusion of knowledge as may contentment with particularity…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even…

— Julia Robinson

A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is…

— Gian-Carlo Rota

We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

— Keith Devlin

“Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view.”

— Daniel Tammet Thinking in Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by…

— Franz Boas

Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been…

— Franz Boas

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Earlier traditions usually formulated their theories in terms of stories. Modern science uses mathematics”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights…

— Edmund Husserl

“Earlier traditions usually formulated their theories in terms of stories. Modern science uses mathematics. There”

— Yuval Noah Harari