Anthropology Quote by Jane Howard

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

— Elizabeth Kostova

Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself…

— Andrew Lang

“I am an anthropologist who lost faith in her own method, who stopped believing that observable activity defined anthropos.”

— Joan Didion

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

“Through science, she could reach anyone at anytime around the world, but no one seemed to know what to say.”

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the…

— Anonymous

“Anthropology, she thought, like charity, surely begins at home.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition…

— Deborah Eisenberg

“Anthropology is never an exact science; the observer never experiences the same culture as the participant. But these are natural limitations inherent to the…

— Orson Scott Card

Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

— Nicolas Bentley

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able…

— Margaret Mead

“She wanted to know how Galileo and Newton and Einstein discovered the things they discovered. She wanted to know how they could have lived…

— Amy Zhang