“Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.” KnowsIdeasWantedPastInterestKnowingFashionStudentsTheoryAchievementIntellectualEnthusiasmBotherPrestigeKnowing Nothing Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.” KnowsScienceKnowledgeDoubtContentionScientific Knowledge Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.” KnowsMenHumansReasonFormLanguageLogicInternalsHuman ReasonHuman Language Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
