Anthropology Quote by Ralph Linton Download Open image “The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.” — Ralph Linton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anthropology Fishes Lasts Linton Noticing Perception Surroundings Water Would be
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“If fish were scientists, probably the last thing they would discover is water!” — William J. Webb 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
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
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
Aquarium fishes even if they only imagine going to a lake, the windows of that aquarium will become thinner than before. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns… — Ralph Linton Copy Share Image
It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest… — Ralph Linton Copy Share Image
“[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns...We… — Ralph Linton Copy Share Image
“Marriage," "mating," and "love" are socially constructed phenomena that have little or no transferable meaning outside any given culture. The examples we've noted of… — Christopher Ryan 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
“A geneticist is a geek who claims to have proven through regression analyses that a Neanderthal had sex with your great-grandmother 50,000 years ago.” — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one… — Arthur Kleinman Copy Share Image
Archaeology is the anthropology of the past, and science fiction is the anthropology of the future. — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Modern anthropology ... opposes the utilitarian assumption that the primitive chants as he sows seed because he believes that otherwise it will not grow,… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
For me, a bit of anthropology in the evening is always better than staying and watching the telly. — Nick Rhodes Copy Share Image
When you ask why did some particular question occur to a scientist or philosopher for the first time, or why did this particular approach… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
I didn't major in anthropology in college, but I do feel I had an education in different cultures very early on. My parents divorced… — Lily King Copy Share Image
Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet. — Michael Brian Schiffer Copy Share Image
There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
