Quotes About Culture

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

There is no national science, just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science.

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for science this is considered quite normal. This is a fundamental weakness.

Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or milky way.

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

The black nation of Egypt is the only country that has a science named after its culture: Egyptology

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective.

Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.

Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share.

God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.

History is the science of people.

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?