Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.
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.
Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.
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.
North Carolina needs to revamp the tax code completely. We have some of the highest tax rates, like the corporate tax rate, in the country.
If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.
We allowed ourselves to become particularly interested in research into the appearance of intermediate products of sugar decomposition during cell-free fermentation.
I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.
Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.
When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.
On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.
Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.
One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
