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Claude Lévi-Strauss

(28 Nov 1908 - )

French social anthropologist.

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Science Quotes by Claude Lévi-Strauss (5 quotes)

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Structural Anthropology (1958), 159.

Science quotes on: | Anthropology (31) | Galileo Galilei (63) | Sir Isaac Newton (161)

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

In Tristes Tropiques (1955, 1974), 414.

Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques (1990), 7.

Science quotes on: | Science (754) | Truth (399)

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques (1990), 7.

Science quotes on: | Contention (6) | Doubt (56) | Knowledge (593)

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques (1990), 7.

Science quotes on: | Answer (80) | Mind (236) | Question (130)

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