“The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.”
Claude Levi-Strauss
“That's where I don't go, ... That's not a scientific question.”
James Smith
“You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The value of history is, indeed, not scientific but moral: by liberalizing the mind, by deepening the sympathies, by fortifying the will, it enables us to control, not society, but ourselves - a much more important thing; it prepares us to live more”
Carl Becker
“What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.”
Archibald MacLeish
“A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime - it's not very scientific but it helps”
Alexander Fleming
“Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?”
Clyde Kluckhohn
