Another thought from the same source
...it must be remembered that what appears to be an extensive, complicated, and yet well ordered institution is the outcome of so many doings and pursuits, carried on by savages, who have no laws or aims or charters definitively laid down. They have no knowledge of the total outline of any of their social structure. They know their own motives, know the purpose of individual actions and the rules which apply to them, but how, out of these, the whole collective institution shapes, this is beyond their mental range.
Bronislaw Malinowsky, Argonauts of the Western Pacific

Our science is that complicated institution, and we are the savages.