Quote by Clifford Geertz
I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false. – Clifford Geertz

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We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isnt a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard. – Clifford Geertz

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The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. – Clifford Geertz

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Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. Theres been an extraordinary advance. – Clifford Geertz

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It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit it acknowledges the commonality of peoples experience. – John Charles Polanyi

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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more. – George Bernard Shaw

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Ive always loved 3D. In fact, as a kid, I was exposed to 3D at an early age because my grandfather was a specialist of 3D in cinematheques. And then my cousin put it in Science of Sleep with toilet paper tube cities. But he was a specialist and I always wanted to do something in 3D. – Michel Gondry

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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. – Galileo Galilei

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