E. E. Evans-Pritchard quotes

E. E. Evans-Pritchard quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Anyone can produce a new fact; the thing is to produce a new idea.”
-- E. E. Evans-Pritchard

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“A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.”
“The very fact that the jaguar can become extinct while the Pekingese survives indicates to me that someone hasn't thought this thing through.”
“You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.”
“I dared not trust the case on the presumption that the court knows everything. In fact, I argued it on the presumption that the court didn't know anything.”
“The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.”
“The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.”

Source : "Adam Savage on becoming a maker". www.wired.com. July 4, 2012.
“Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.”
“For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.”

Source : B.H. Liddell Hart (2015). “Why Don't We Learn from History?”, p.62, Lulu Press, Inc
“Halfway through any work, one is often tempted to go off on a tangent. Once you have yielded, you will be tempted to yield again and again... Finally, you would only produce something hybrid.”
“The non-commutativity of the underlying process produces an ontological complementarity. This must be contrasted to Bohr's epistemological complementarity.”

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