Anthropology is never an exact science; the observer never experiences the same culture as the participant. But there are natural limitations inherent to the science. It is the artificial limitations that hamper us - and, through us, you

[He] wondered if it was already too late to teach her how to be a human

It frightened him to have this girl need something from him so desperately

So you chose not to be part of the bands of children who group together for the sole purpose of excluding others, and people look at you and say, poor girl, sh…

To know that no one before you has seen an organ you are examining, to trace relationships that have occurred to no one before, to immerse yourself in the wond…

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of natu…

It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than…