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"The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."
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"The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness."
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"Beauty runs skin deep not on superficial assumptions or criticisms of many people. Live with a beautiful mind and heart. Live with a beautiful soul."
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"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
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"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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"If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous."
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"The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a loving heart is everlasting."
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"The beauty of a face is transient, but the beauty of a heart is everlasting and magnificent."
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"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."
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"To find beauty, rise above conformity and find opportunities."
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"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."
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"I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves."
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"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
Anthropology
"The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about."
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"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere."
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"The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive."
Anthropology
"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
Science
"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."
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"We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn't a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard."
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"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."
Anthropology
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