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(on Cambridge) I went there to row. I`ll be blunt with it. It`s been ten years, and I think the admissions tutor can take it now . . . but that`s really what I went for, and anthropology was the most convenient subject to read while spending eight hours a day on the river.

- Hugh Laurie

I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.

- Tim Robbins

Learn about the world, the way it works, any kind of science and anthropology, it`s really an interesting place we live in. Evolution is a really fantastic idea, even more than the idea of God I think.

- Randy Newman

It was the best news I could have hoped for. Receiving the Fulbright-Hays has allowed me to pursue a career in anthropology and experience things most people never have a chance to.

- Angela Martin

If there`s ever a place where you can`t argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology.

- Alan Loewenstein

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn`t a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.

- Alan Loewenstein

I`ve often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

- Alan Loewenstein

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn`t have a real method, there`s a great deal of anxiety over what it is.

- Alan Loewenstein

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology.

- Alan Loewenstein

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

- Alan Loewenstein

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

- Alan Loewenstein

It`s always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it`s written now. There`s been an enormous shift in how it`s done, but yet you can`t put your finger on someone who actually did it.

- Alan Loewenstein

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.

- Alan Loewenstein

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

- Alan Loewenstein

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There`s been an extraordinary advance.

- Alan Loewenstein

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.

- Alex Culbertson

The Secret Doctrine is the common property of the countless millions of men born under various climates, in times with which History refuses to deal, and to which esoteric teachings assign dates incompatible with the theories of Geology and Anthropology.

- Alexander Alexeyev

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

- Amit Singh

Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.

- Amy Estry

Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.

- Jane Howard

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

- Margaret Mead

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.

- Alfred L. Kroeber

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

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.

- Michael Brian Schiffer

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

- Ruth Benedict

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

- Margaret Mead