Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Ralph Linton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American anthropologist Ralph Linton.
Last updated on November 24, 2024.
Ralph Linton

Ralph Linton was a respected American anthropologist of the mid-20th century, particularly remembered for his texts The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955). One of Linton's major contributions to anthropology was defining a distinction between status and role.

It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.
The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water. — © Ralph Linton
The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.
The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods
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