Claude Levi-Strauss Quotes

Claude Levi-Strauss — French Scientist born on November 28, 1908,

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982 and was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world and has been called, alongside James George Frazer and Franz Boas, the "father of modern anthropology"... (wikipedia)

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.