Art Quote by Robert M. Sapolsky

“Typology is the study of how OT historical persons, events, institutions, and settings function to foreshadow, anticipate, prefigure, and predict the greater realities in…

— Stephen J. Wellum

“Professor [John] Tyndall once said the finest inspiration he ever received was from an old man who could scarcely read. This man acted as…

— Elbert Hubbard

“He was one of that class of men who, apart from a scientific career in which they may well have proved brilliantly successful, have…

— Marcel Proust

“He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.”

— Mary Shelley

“Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities." - Alfred L. Kroeber”

— Alfred L. Kroeber

“Virginia Woolf wrote famously, “About December 1910 human nature changed.” Well, one doubts it. What did change, and has been changing all through the…

— Deirdre McCloskey

“So exalted was the idea of hegemony over self that every gentleman fell short. But the ideal itself was pursued for many generations. At…

— Mark David Ledbetter

For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build solidly grounded…

— Margaret Mead

“to uncover the true workings of human society from beneath the aesthetic surface under observation. (xiii)”

— Émile Zola

“He read with young men who could find any leisure and interest for the study of a living tongue spoken all over the world,…

— Charles Dickens

“The state of civil society, which necessarily generates this aristocracy, is a state of nature; and much more truly so than a savage and…

— Edmund Burke

“Humanism, he continued, leaning toward his colleagues with the zeal of his conviction even as he stumbled over his words, that holds as its…

— Jean Hegland