Anthropology Quote by Pascal Boyer

Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.

— Jan Chipchase

“What we mean when we say that something is "cultural" is that it is roughly similar to what we find in other members of…

— Pascal Boyer

“You see, writers traveling to Southeast Asia visit indigenous communities. No writing quest will be complete without some cross-cultural comparisons. This exercise is a…

— Merlin Franco

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

— Edward Sapir

I am fearful, or suspicious, of generalizations... They cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

...there are special sciences not because of the nature of our epistemic relation to the world, but because of the way the world is…

— Jerry Fodor

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

“It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry—which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books—that the twenty amino acids and the…

— Francis Crick

“The problem with generalizations is that there are always special cases under which they don't apply, except for when there aren't.”

— John Himself

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Usually, thinking may end up widen our imaginations that creates nonsense generalizations.

— Glemar

“Over against these generalizations we raise no objection, but there are many cases, in practical life, of doubtful nature. An act of charity, for…

— Kaiten Nukariya