Ashley Montagu Anthropologist
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United Kingdom
- Born: Jun 28, 1905
- Died: Nov 26, 1999
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu was a British-American anthropologist who popularized 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 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 lectured at Harvard, Princeton University, Rutgers University, the University of California, and New York University. He authored over sixty books throughout this lifetime. In 1995, the American Humanist Association named him the Humanist of the Year.
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
women
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
death
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
alone & family
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.
health & science
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
science
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.
happiness