Clifford Geertz Thinking Quotations

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist

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.

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

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world

We don't know what we think until we see what we say.