No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.

You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.

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.

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.

The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer – which is not necessarily the same thing.

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most...

To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn.

If society will not admit of woman’s free development, then society must be remodeled.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

Don’t lie if you don’t have to.

Reject hatred without hating.

Gnarly processes often display patterns at several scales. We find them fun to watch because they tend to appear as if they’re alive.

It’s not going to fill in the potholes. It’s not going to put a roof over people’s heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we...

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought.

As long as a government can come and shoot you, you can’t jump on the Internet to freedom.

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...

I think they now have a very good position. Their digital signal processing is right in the mainstream of the future development.

We usually don’t have applications in mind. They come later.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn’t a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we’re third.

I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on.

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.

The rim is looking bigger and bigger every game.

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.

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there – there’s a scarcity of attention. Information...

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.

The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.

You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory – what’s going on, what the opportunities are there – you talk about your own research.

The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

In thinking about nanotechnology today, what’s most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough.

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

We didn’t know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

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

We’re getting closer to our nature.

The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for...

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

To insult someone we call him “bestial.” For deliberate cruelty and nature, “human” might be the greater insult.

A blank wall of social and professional antagonism faces the woman physician that forms a situation of singular and painful loneliness, leaving her without support, respect or professional counsel.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

A scientist’s aim in a discussion with his colleagues is not to persuade, but to clarify.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

I like a book better if I can’t predict what’s going to happen.

That’s really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now...

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it’s the system – there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it’s a sleazy...

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

I’m doing a little consulting. I’m somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.