Quotes by Ashley Montagu

“Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the worlds foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops.”

“Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house”

“Every scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before lastly, they say they always believed it.”

“By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being.”

“Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion”

“Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences. It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.”

“Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.”

“Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.”

“Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.”

“Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.”

“Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Dont worship it. Feed it.”

“Science when well digested is nothing but good sense and reason.”

“Part of the strength of science is that it has tended to attract individuals who love knowledge and the creation of it.”

“One goes through school, college, medical school and ones internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.”

“The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.”

“Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.”

“There are people who see nudity in the crotch of every tree”

“It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle”

“There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.”

“The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family gets together alone.”