"Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and……" — Joan D. Vinge
"Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future."
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39 Quotes by Joan D. Vinge
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For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.
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Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.
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These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most…
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And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with…
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Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.
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The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their…
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Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.
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Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
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As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more…
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Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
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Beyond that, I seem to be compelled to write science fiction, rather than fantasy or mysteries or some other genre…
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Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the…
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More Anthropology Quotes
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
— Ruth Benedict
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This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all…
— George Herbert
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If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we…
— William Graham Sumner
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Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science…
— Lancelot Hogben
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.
— Nancy Banks-Smith
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In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of…
— Ruth Behar
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Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is…
— Renzo Piano
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Economic theorists, like French chefs in regard to food, have developed stylized models whose ingredients are limited by some unwritten…
— George Akerlof
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If we study history and anthropology we will find that all over the world the original people are Black people…
— Runoko Rashidi
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Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at…
— Arthur Kleinman
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Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery…
— Aleister Crowley
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