Quotes from Ashley Montagu

The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.

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

Without love, intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence, love is not enough.

... the main principle by which human beings must guide the future course of their development is love.

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

The only measure of what you believe is what you do. If you want to know what people believe, don't read what they write, don't ask them what they believe, just observe what they do.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

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.

It is not the most lovable individuals who stand more in need of love, but the most unlovable