Quotes by : Claude Lévi-Strauss

From time to time, too, and for the space of two or three paces, an image or an echo would rise up from....

The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do....

For everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history.....

Every effort to understand destroys the object studied in favor of another object of a different nature;....

For mile after mile the same melodic phrase rose up in my memory. I simply couldn’t get free of it.....

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

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

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.....