Ashley Montagu Quotes & Sayings

15 most famous Ashley Montagu quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American scientist who passed away on 26 November, 1999.

“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”

“Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”

“The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.”

“The idea is to die young as late as possible.”

“The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.”

“The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.”

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

“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.”

“Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.”