Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.
There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility…The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.