The passion for seeking the truth for truth's sake can be kept alive only if we continue to seek the truth for truth's sake.

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be

No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time