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"I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false."
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"Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world."
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"The Man in the Moon is in fact a record of ancient catastrophes--most of which took place before humans, before mammals, and probably even before life arose on Earth. It is a characteristic conceit of our species to put a human face on random cosmic violence."
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"Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's great telescope; and his ears capacious as the porches of cathedrals; would that make him any longer of sight, or sharper of hearing? Not at all.-Why then do you try to 'enlarge' your mind? Subtilize it."
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"In scientific thinking are always present elements of poetry. Science and music requires a thought homogeneous."
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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
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"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."
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"The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it."
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"The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals."
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"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
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"All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking."
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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
"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere."
Books
"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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"I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it."
Anthropology
"The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable."
Mother
"Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is."
Anthropology
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