Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.
Claude Levi-StraussI can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.
Claude Levi-StraussFor everything is history: What was said yesterday is history, what was said a minute ago is history. But, above all, one is led to misjudge the present, because only the study of historical development permits the weighing and evaluation of the interrelationships among the components of the present-day society.
Claude Levi-Strauss