“No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.”

—  Franz Boas

Source: Race and Democratic Society (1945), Chapter 7.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have c…" by Franz Boas?
Franz Boas photo
Franz Boas 7
German-American anthropologist 1858–1942

Related quotes

Leon Trotsky photo
Samuel Johnson photo

“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”

No. 103 (12 March 1751)
Variant: Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
Source: The Rambler (1750–1752)

Albert Einstein photo

“No science of any kind can be divorced from ethical considerations… Science is a human learning process which arises in certain subcultures in human society and not in others, and a subculture as we seen is a group of people defined by acceptance of certain common values, that is, an ethic which permits extensive communication between them.”

Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist

Source: 1960s, Economics As A Moral Science, 1969, p. 2 cited in: John B. Davis (2011) Kenneth Boulding as a Moral Scientist http://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=econ_workingpapers Working paper

Aldous Huxley photo
C.G. Jung photo
Aldous Huxley photo
Kent Hovind photo
Aldous Huxley photo

“The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

The Olive Tree (1936)

Related topics