Science Quote by Orson Scott Card

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.

— Anonymous

Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been…

— Franz Boas

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

— Edward Sapir

“The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading; it can make the differences in values between cultures appear greater than they are...It is only…

— James Rachels

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

I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture.…

— Laurie Colwin

“Studying anthropology tends t change the way you look at the world. It leaves a distinctive chip in your brain, or lens over your…

— Gillian Tett

“The paradox of anthropology: to see something, you had to be outside of it, but when you were outside of it, you couldn't see…

— Paul La Farge

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

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

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

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