Animals Quote by Maria Montessori

In order to turn natural history into a true science, one would have to devote oneself to investigations capable of telling us not the…

— Pierre Louis Maupertuis

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

I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist.

— Reggie Watts

I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an…

— Thomas Huxley

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

— Alfred L. Kroeber

By ecology we understand the total science of the connections of the organism to the surrounding external world.

— Ernst Haeckel

The faculty of self-help is that which distinguished man from animals; that it is the Godlike element, or holds within itself the Godlike element,…

— J. G. Holland

The scientific study of Nature tends not only to correct and ennoble the intellectual conceptions of man; it serves also to ameliorate his physical…

— John William Draper

“What is self and what is other may be a question of the person's 'biology,' but it is equally a question of the person's…

— Robert Kegan

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No…

— Ernst Mach

Early ecologists soon realised that, since humans are organisms, ecology should include the study of the relationship between humans and the rest of the…

— Richard Heinberg

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what…

— Clifford Geertz