3,162 Quotes About Culture

The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do vary across cultures and have to be learned, but the deeper mechanisms of mental computation that generate them may be universal and innate.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish, and conversely without a continuous and healthy development and application of science such a society cannot function properly.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.

In the past, people used to say Hong Kong was an entrepreneurs' playground and a shoppers paradise. But with Hong Kong Disneyland here, there is more culture and entertainment available. Hong Kong will further become a tourist mecca,

It's a hard transition. You have to really want to be a part of a new culture.

I think that the culture in the United States is to push people until they drop and now we're doing it to our children.

American culture, including its literature, has been enriched over many decades by the work of its immigrant authors.

Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.