We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.
The top quark was discovered in 1995, and since then, the Higgs has become our obsession because the standard model was incomplete without it.
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
Whitney wanted to eradicate the idea that in the case of a language we are dealing with a natural faculty; in fact, social institutions stand opposed to natural institutions.
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker. [ ]
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars.
I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical.
I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.
I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.
People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.
It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.
proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.
When the violation of parity was discovered I began a series of electronic experiments to investigate parity violation in hyperon decays.
The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either.
You need a continuous picture of how things are evolving, and not a slow series of snapshots where you don't know how frame A is related to frame B.
What was shocking to us was that by spreading the energy out across seven beams instead of one, the phototoxicity went way down.
