"[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and political patterns...We are now...only beginning to explore the potentialities which it offers for developments in our culture outside technology, particularly in the social, political and economic fields. It is safe to predict that...such social inventions as modern-type Capitalism, Fascism, and Communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed toward the adjustment of modern society to modern methods"
Quotes by Ralph Linton
"The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water."
"إننا في الحقيقة قردة في صورة إنسانية، تحاول أن تعيش مثل النمل الأبيض، وكما يستطيع أن يقرر أي مشاهد ينظر إلى الموضوع نظرة فلسفية، فإننا لم ننجح كثيرًا في محاولاتنا"
Ralph Linton
Ralph Linton (27 February 1893 – 24 December 1953) was an American anthropologist of the mid-20th century, particularly remembered for his texts The Study of Man (1936) and The Tree of Culture (1955)....