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Quote by Margaret Mead

“I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.”

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Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist known for her groundbreaking fieldwork and theoretical contributions. She is renowned for her studies of the Samoan, Arapesh, and Australian Aboriginal peoples, which had a profound impact on the fields of anthropology and sociology. more

“I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences... This, many readers felt, was too much. It was too pretty. I must have found what I was looking for. But this misconception comes from a lack of understanding of what anthropology means, of the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder, that which one would not have been able to guess.”

Looks Has Beens Able Science Wonder Records Air Listening Demand Openness Anthropology Open Mindedness Astonishment

Author:Margaret Mead

“Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.”

Two Peace Capacity Ruined Bathroom

Author:Margaret Mead

“Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.”

Life Firsts Century First Time Jumping Twentieth Century Parachutes

Book:PEOPLE AND PLACES

Source: PEOPLE AND PLACES

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

Way Air Come Up Metamorphosis Fieldwork