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.

I have never known so much naive conviction allied to greater intellectual poverty.

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.

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

There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.

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