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 indications are that swearing preceded the development of cursing. That is, expletives, maledictions, exclamations, and imprecations of the immediately explosive or vituperative kind preceded the speechmaking and later rituals involved in the deliberate apportioning of the fate of an enemy. Swearing of the former variety is from the lips only, but the latter is from the heart. Damn it! is not that same as Damn you!
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.
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.
... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.
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.
The majority of people believe in incredible things which are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being.
The measure of man's humanity is the extent and intensity of his love for mankind.
Children are the most learning-hungry beings in the world.