Anthropologists Quote by Margaret Mead Download Open image “If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.” — Margaret Mead ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anthropologists Fishes Ifs Lasts Water Would be
“If fish were scientists, probably the last thing they would discover is water!” — William J. Webb Copy Share Image
I'm not sure who discovered water, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't a fish. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“We don't know who discovered water, but we are certain it wasn't a fish.” — John Culkin Copy Share Image
The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If all the theories were correct, there wouldn't be a fish left in all of our lakes and rivers and streams. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
A fish probably has no means of apprehending the existence of water; it is too deeply immersed in it. — Oliver Lodge Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
As a social anthropologist, I naturally accept and even stress the fact that there are major differences, both mental and psychological, which separate the… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the 'bit' or… — Charles Hampden-Turner Copy Share Image
People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects. — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
Anthropologists have often described what happens to a primitive society when its spiritual values are exposed to the impact of modern civilisation. Its people… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
