Anthropology Quote by George Herbert

History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

— Irving Langmuir

“The science of man is the only solid foundation for the other sciences. [All the other sciences] have a relation, greater or lesser, to…

— David Hume

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

“science, which can make known only the interrelations of things, but never their origin, essence and end, will never be able to satisfy the…

— Herman Bavinck

“The truth is that science started its modern career by taking over ideas derived from the weakest side of the philosophies of Aristotle's successors.…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.”

— Edward O. Wilson

Science has penetrated the constitution of nature, and unrolled the mysterious pages of its history, and started again many, as yet, unanswered questions in…

— Noah Porter

Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which…

— Polykarp Kusch

In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain that every…

— Ernest Starling

“natural science is likely to be soon exhausted. Passing by many particulars of the discipline”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Science does not stand as a moral guardian of humanity, rather it attempts to stand as the least subjective, least biased and least sociologically…

— Abhijit Naskar

Scientific knowledge belongs to humanity.

— Alexandra Elbakyan