We Do Not Know Enough About How

It Is To The Riddle Of The Sphinx That I Have Devoted Fifty Years Of Professional Life As An Anthropologist.

Information Is A Difference That Makes A Difference.

If It Were Possible Adequately To Present The Whole Of A Culture, Stressing Every Aspect Exactly As Appears In The Culture Itself, No Single Detail Would Appear Bizarre Or Strange Or Arbitrary To The Reader, But Rather The Details Would All Appear Natural And Reasonable As They Do To The Natives Who Have Lived All Their Lives Within The Culture.

Wisdom Is The Intelligence Of The System As A Whole.

We Do Not Know Enough About How The Present Will Lead Into The Future. We Shall Never Be Able To Say, "ha! My Perception, My Accounting For That Series, Will Indeed Cover Its Next And Future Components," Or "next Time I Meet With These Phenomena, I Shall Be Able To Predict Their Total Course."