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Claude Lévi-Strauss

(28 Nov 1908 - )

French social anthropologist.

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Science Quotes by Claude Lévi-Strauss (4)

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

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

Structural Anthropology (1958), 159.

See also: | Anthropology (27) | Galileo Galilei (56) | Sir Isaac Newton (131)

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

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

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

See also: | Science (463) | Truth (247)

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

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

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

See also: | Contention (3) | Doubt (31) | Knowledge (341)

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.

See also: | Answer (25) | Mind (125) | Question (52)

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