Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.

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

Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.

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

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.