"The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions."
— Claude Levi-Strauss

"Difficulties of intellectual comprehension gave an additional note of pathos to the moral problem. Everything was puzzling for those early explorers: Pierre d’Ailly’s Image of the World refers to a newly discovered and supremely happy race of men, gens beatissima, consisting of pygmies, macrobiotics and even people without heads. Pierre Martyr quotes descriptions of monstrous beasts: snakes like crocodiles; animals with the body of an ox and a proboscis like that of the elephant; four-legged fish with ox-heads, their backs studded with thousands of warts and tortoise-like shells, as well as man-eating tyburons. But these, after all, are only boas, tapirs, manatees or hippopotamuses and sharks (in Portuguese, tubarão)."
— Claude Levi-Strauss