Ashley Montagu

“Human beings are the only creatures who are able to be inhuman.”

“The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family—not the other way around.”

“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.”

“The ability to 'see' is the first step toward enrichment of life.”

“We are not born with the ability to love; we have to learn it.”

“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 what they believe, just observe what they do.”

“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.”

“A scientist is a man who can be responsible for his own mistakes.”

“The fact is that the theory of evolution is the only theory that can explain the facts of life.”

“The educated man is the man who is able to do something he has never done before.”

“Girls are superior to boys in every way that counts.”

“A problem is a question that hasn't been answered. Once it's answered, it's no longer a problem.”