Quotes on anthropology
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
Howard, Jane
Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.
Banks-Smith, Nancy
I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology... the study of milkmen.
Wright, Steven
Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.
Schiffer, Michael Brian
Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Mead, Margaret
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?
Kluckhohn, Clyde
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
Kroeber, Alfred L.
History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.
Auden, Wystan Hugh