"Not so the scientist. The very essence of……" — Franz Boas
"Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth."
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Franz Boas
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22 Quotes by Franz Boas
Franz Boas has 22 quotes on this site.
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If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be…
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Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not…
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The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races…
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No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of…
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Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses…
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There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race…
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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,…
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Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through…
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It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the…
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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his…
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I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work…
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My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma
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More Essence Quotes
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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
— Aristotle
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
— Nnamdi Azikiwe
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
— Isaac Asimov
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very…
— Sai Baba
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy…
— Irving Babbitt
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a…
— Eric Bana
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
— John Adams
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
— Jane Addams
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose…
— Annie Besant
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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