My reading has been all over the place recently, and I found the following via a very indirect route. What I liked best about it was that you can replace "anthropology" with so many other possibilities and it still works.
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[...] anthropology, is a science whose progress is marked less by a perfection of consensus than by a refinement of debate. What gets better is the precision with which we vex each other.
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Clifford Geertz - The interpretation of cultures: selected essays. - 1973