Boas Quotes

#1. 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.

Franz Boas

#2. Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal, but what constitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways

Franz Boas

#3. A good sense of humor, then, a taste for the ironies of life, and an appreciation of the absurd.

Paul Auster

#4. All her life she had looked into dark; but this was a vaster darkness, this night on the ocean. There was no end to it. There was no roof. It went out beyond the stars.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#5. When you have a lot of money, there's so many places you can go to manage your money. But when you don't have money, mathematically you actually need a financial plan more. You can't really afford to make mistakes. So why is this such a luxury product?

Alexa Von Tobel

#6. I'd eat butter with a spoon if it were acceptable.

Rainbow Rowell

#7. Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.

Ralph P. Boas Jr.

#8. A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but submissive individuals, half of its health and all of its vigor have disappeared.

George Boas

#9. She looked before she drank. Looking was part of drinking. why waste sensation, she seemed to ask, why waste a single drop that can be pressed out of this ripe, this melting, this adorable world? Then she drank. And the air round her became threaded with sensation.

Virginia Woolf

#10. When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.

George Boas

#11. But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.

Alexandra Ripley

#12. 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.

Franz Boas

#13. How far we've come, Jeff," Brian whispered to the cold, wet streets. "How far the geeky boys have come.

Rafael Yglesias

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

Franz Boas

#15. 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

#16. 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 and in different social classes.

Franz Boas

#17. What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?

Thomas Sowell

#18. When I get home from a heavy work day, I make sure I get outside with the kids. I don't think there's any better cure than being active as a family outside.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

#19. 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 steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.

Franz Boas

#20. 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 life.

Franz Boas

#21. 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

#22. No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.

Franz Boas

#23. 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 contact, must be considered.

Franz Boas

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

Franz Boas

#25. 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

#26. At Chelsea, a sacking is just another day at the office.

Andre Villas-Boas

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

Franz Boas

#28. 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

#29. Somebody came up to me after a talk I had given, and say, "You make mathematics seem like fun." I was inspired to reply, "If it isn't fun, why do it?"

Ralph P. Boas Jr.

#30. The call to make that decision is not mine, because obviously I won't resign and I'm not a quitter.

Andre Villas-Boas

#31. My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.

Franz Boas

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

Franz Boas

#33. The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

Franz Boas

#34. The behavior of an individual is determined not by his racial affiliation, but by the character of his ancestry and his cultural environment.

Franz Boas

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. My problem with iTunes is that I don't have any say in how I'm represented on the site.

DJ Shadow