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

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing

I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.