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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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