Scientist Quotes

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.
I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.
I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.
The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.
We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.
Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.
To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.
First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying there, dying slowly, we tried to make breathing easier for them by using our own life-saving devices on them.
I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.
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