Ashley Montagu - Quotations

Quotations

  • "Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof."
  • "The idea is to die young as late as possible."
  • "... circumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society." — in Mutilated Humanity
  • "The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness" - said to Johnny Carson during an appearance on The Tonight Show promoting the reissue of the hardbound edition of his book The Natural Superiority of Women.
  • "The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice." - from Man: his first Million Years, this quote begins the penultimate chapter of Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan
  • "The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings". Ashley Montagu. Growing Young; Granby, MA: Bergin & Garvey, 1989, p. 120
  • "The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health." Ashley Montagu The Universal Nature of Play

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