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Stanley Casson
(7 May 1889 - 17 Apr 1944)
English archaeologist who after WW I became Assistant Director of the British School at Athens, and directed excavations in Constantinople in the late 1920s. He published thirteen books of archaeology, art history, philosophy and autobiography.
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Science Quotes by Stanley Casson (1 quote)
The nearer man approaches mathematics the farther away he moves from the animals.
— Stanley Casson
In Progress and Catastrophe: An Anatomy of Human Adventure (1937), 62.
Quotes by others about Stanley Casson (1)
If on occasion Mr. Casson exhibits an insularity of judgment when it comes to the evaluation of the contribution made by various men to the development of modern anthropology, he may be forgiven upon the ground that, where anthropology is concerned, he is only following an old English custom!
In 'Review: The Discovery of Man by Stanley Casson', Isis (Jun 1941), 33, No. 2, 302.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
