Comparative Study Quotes

I think it will be, as always, interesting to compare different portrayals of Hitchcock. I'm very honored that I'm playing the same part as Anthony Hopkins.

I think it's possible to a certain extent to make those comparisons. The problem is the detail with which the comparison can be made. Of course, the first place to make such a comparison would be to ask for a testimony from different people and have people report on what they experience.

Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.

I understand emotions more than anyone else. I study emotions like a biologist studies various species.

There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity.

The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs.

The juxtaposition of India and Australia is such a great one to explore.

The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

The great task for environmental historians is to record and analyze the effects of man's recently achieved control over the natural world. What is needed is a longer-term global, comparative, historical perspective that treats the environment as a meaningful variable.

We can and should investigate and learn from the wisdom in other religions.

If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.

'The Princess and the Warrior' is looking at the same things as 'Lola' - just from a different angle.

It's important to understand differences in scale and environment.

There probably could be some mileage in running a comparative study about how best to finance electoral campaigns around the world.

I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

I have shown that Swedish top students know statistically significantly less about the world than the chimpanzees.

Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

Believers are right when they say that to understand a religion properly you need to get under its skin. But to understand it fully, you cannot stay there: you have to take a more objective view, too.

There will be no room, here, for the smug myopia which views American civilization as the final solution to all world problems; which recommends our institutions for universal adoption and turns away with contempt from the serious study of the institutions of peoples whose civilizations may seem to us to be materially less advanced.

Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.

You do not understand your own tradition if you do not see it in relation to others.