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Quotes from Growing Up in New Guinea — Margaret Mead

1901–1978 United States

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It is not until science has become a discipline to which the research ability of any mind from any class in society can be attracted that it can become rigorously scientific.

Growing Up in New Guinea (1930)

The semimetaphysical problems of the individual and society, of egoism and altruism, of freedom and determinism, either disappear or remain in the form of different phases in the organization of a consciousness that is fundamentally social.

Growing Up in New Guinea (1930)

In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.

Growing Up in New Guinea (1930)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Margaret Mead (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.