Anthropologists Quote by Robert Graves

“Do the poet and scientist not work analogously? Both are willing to waste effort. To be hard on himself is one ...of the main…

— Marianne Moore

“Though science makes no use for poetry, poetry is enriched by science. Poetry “takes up” the scientific vision and re-expresses its truths, but always…

— L.P. Jacks

“I believe that this example demonstrates how great science and great poetry are both visionary, and may even arrive at the same intuitions. Our…

— Carlo Rovelli

In reading, we are both scientists and poets.

— Maryanne Wolf

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Science has its place in man’s search for understanding, but science and the imagination have tended to bifurcate in the modern world; only the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by…

— Franz Boas

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

— Clifford Geertz

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

— Joseph Roux

There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite…

— Anonymous

Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But…

— David Christian