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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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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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Clifford Geertz

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things.

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Clifford Geertz

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should.

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Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

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Clifford Geertz

If there’s ever a place where you can’t argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology.

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Clifford Geertz

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

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Clifford Geertz

I’ve written a lot of books which are written from the moon – the view from nowhere.

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Clifford Geertz

I’m writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it’s about social constructionism. So I would say I’m a social constructionist, whatever that means.

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Clifford Geertz

I was trained in the ’50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley’s soul and such things.

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Clifford Geertz

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

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Clifford Geertz

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

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