Ashley Montagu
Ashley Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu, previously known as Israel Ehrenberg, was a British-American anthropologist who popularized the study of topics such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development. He was the rapporteur, in 1950, for the UNESCO statement The Race Question. As a young man he changed his name from Ehrenberg to "Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu". After relocating to the United States he used the name "Ashley Montagu". Montagu, who became a naturalized American citizen in 1940, taught and...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth28 June 1905
The evidence indicates that woman is, on the whole, biologically superior to man.
The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.
The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.
Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, everyone knows that he is little more than chairman, at most, of the entertainment committee.
The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.
You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.
For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.
Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.
Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.