Clifford Geertz – 5 Quotes

5 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.

– Clifford Geertz

We need to think more about the nature of rhetoric in anthropology. There isn’t a body of knowledge and thought to fall back on in this regard.

– Clifford Geertz

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

– Clifford Geertz

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false.

– 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.

– Clifford Geertz