Quotes Franz Boas

Ethnological phenomena are the result of the physical and ps...

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insuff...

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however im...

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, ...

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, ener...

In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred ye...

In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and ment...

It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought ...

Modern democracy was no doubt the most wholesome and needed ...

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremo...

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

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

Remember that in every single case in history the process of...

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of ...

The historical development of the work of anthropologists se...

This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who ...

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to...

We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental ...