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Franz Boas  Quotes
Modern democracy was no doubt the most wholesome and needed reaction against the abuses of absolutism and of a selfish, often corrupt, bureaucracy.

—Franz Boas

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American Scientist
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The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

—Franz Boas

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Civilization
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My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

—Franz Boas

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American Scientist
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The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority

—Franz Boas

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Belief
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My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.

—Franz Boas

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American Scientist
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If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

—Franz Boas

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Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.

—Franz Boas

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Ethnological phenomena are the result of the physical and psychical character of men, and of its development under the influence of the surroundings.

—Franz Boas

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Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and...

—Franz Boas

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Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into...

—Franz Boas

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The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.

—Franz Boas

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American Scientist
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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...

—Franz Boas

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This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning.

—Franz Boas

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I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.

—Franz Boas

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We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.

—Franz Boas

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In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.

—Franz Boas

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American Scientist
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We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas...

—Franz Boas

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In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.

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American Scientist
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The passion for seeking the truth for truth’s sake…can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth’s sake.

—Franz Boas

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PassionTruth
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It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human...

—Franz Boas

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