The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences. – Ruth Benedict
Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together? – Clyde Kluckhohn
Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. – Alfred L. Kroeber
