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Franz Boas Quotes

American - Scientist | July 9, 1858 - December 21, 1942

It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.

Life Human Events Human Life Task

Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for the impossible, but do not let your path deviate from the quiet and steadfast insistence on full opportunities for your powers.

History Path Impossible Opportunities

I object to teaching of slogans intended to befog the mind, of whatever kind they may be.

Mind Kind Whatever May Object

We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches.

Life Results Know Private Life Up

Not so the scientist. The very essence of his life is the service of truth.

Life Truth Service Essence Scientist

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

Equality Present Intelligent Mankind

The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.

Civilization Modern Distrust Disease

In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party.

Strong Political Enough Down Party

We do not discuss the anatomical, physiological, and mental characteristics of man considered as an individual; but we are interested in the diversity of these traits in groups of men found in different geographical areas and in different social classes.

Men Man Diversity Individual Mental

This idea was also brought out very clearly by Wallace, who emphasized that apparently reasonable activities of man might very well have developed without an actual application of reasoning.

Man Without Out Clearly Activities

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.

Work Knowledge Science Development

My parents had broken through the shackles of dogma.

Broken Parents Through Dogma Had

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