Clifford Geertz

Two people have been really liberating in my mind; one is Wittgenstein and the other is Burke. I read Burke before he was a secular saint, before everyone was reading him.

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These are some quotes by American author Clifford Geertz Scientist, who lived between August 23, 1926 and October 30, 2006.

Quotes by Clifford Geertz

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.

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Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance.

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

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