Talk:Ashley Montagu

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  • Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
    • This is a misquote that's all over the web. I've added the correct sourced quote from Science and Creationism, 1984.
    • The second example of a misquote, “Religion gives us certainty without proof; science gives us proof without certainty.” is from Neo-Fundamentalism: The Humanist Response, The Academy of Humanism, Prometheus Books, 1988, page 150, paragraph 3.
  • The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.
  • The idea is to die young as late as possible.
  • The majority of people believe in incredible things that are absolutely false. The majority of people daily act in a manner prejudicial to their general well-being.
  • Absolute truth belongs only to one class of humans ... the class of absolute fools.
    • quoted by James Davidson Hunter in Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (1991)
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