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I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.
--Claude Lévi-Strauss
I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.
--Claude Lévi-Strauss
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
--Claude Lévi-Strauss
Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.
--Claude Lévi-Strauss
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
--Claude Lévi-Strauss
Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
--Claude Lévi-Strauss
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
--Claude Lévi-Strauss
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
--Claude Lévi-Strauss
Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.
--Claude Lévi-Strauss
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