I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.

There are savages without God in any proper sense of the word, but none without ghosts.

For myself I say deliberately, it is better to have a millstone tied round the neck and be thrown into the sea than to share the enterprises of those to whom the world has turned, and will turn, because they minister to its weaknesses and cover up the awful realities which it shudders to look at.

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.

Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture and very much to our credit.

Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.