I can't help thinking that science would be more appealing if it had no practical use.
Claude Levi-StraussI think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.
Claude Levi-StraussThe scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
Claude Levi-StraussThe only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.
Claude Levi-Strauss