Ashley Montagu

Ashley Montagu (June 28 1905, London, England - November 26 1999, Princeton, New Jersey), was an English anthropologist and humanist who popularized issues such as race and gender and their relation to politics and development.

Quotes

• "Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof."
• "The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality."
• "The idea is to die young as late as possible."
• "... circumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society." - in "Mutilated Humanity"