Racism Quote by Nicholas Wade

“Racism and discrimination are wrong as a matter of principle, not of science. Science is about what is, not what ought to be. Its shifting sands do not support values, so it is foolish to place them there.” quote by Nicholas Wade — Download Open image

““Racism and discrimination are wrong as a matter of principle, not of science. Science is about what is, not what ought to be. Its shifting sands do not support values, so it is foolish to place them there.””

Nicholas Wade

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Racism Science

More by Nicholas Wade

“there is every reason to suppose that people living in agrarian societies were subject to intense forces of natural selection. But what traits were…

Nicholas Wade

Image

“The English state thus constructed a system, later followed by other European countries, in which the ruler was subject to the law and in…

Nicholas Wade

Image

“Although the emotional and intellectual differences between the world’s peoples as individuals are slight enough, even a small shift in social behavior can generate…

Nicholas Wade

Image

“The king and queen were usually present, and the king or the dauphin would light a pyre. The cats were then tumbled into the…

Nicholas Wade

Image

“The Chinese state, from the days of the Qin, was an efficient, bureaucratized autocracy. Yet to this day, China has never developed the rule…

Nicholas Wade

Image

“Darwin’s theory of evolution, at least in its author’s eyes, dealt solely with the natural world. Yet it was as attractive to political theorists…

Nicholas Wade

Image

“ancient Greek word mousikē, from which the English word music is derived, means any art over which the Muses presided, hence included dance, music…

Nicholas Wade

Image

“Another possibility is that the sweat glands were the driving force behind the rise of EDAR-V370A. East Asians are usually assumed to have evolved…

Nicholas Wade

Image

“When the glaciers retreated, starting around 20,000 years ago, both Europe and East Asia were repopulated by former northerners who had survived the Last…

Nicholas Wade

Image

“Knowledge advances, funeral by funeral,” the economist Paul Samuelson once observed.”

Nicholas Wade

Image

“Several primate species have communication systems of considerable sophistication. Gelada baboons have 22 different kinds of call, and gorillas have been recorded using some…

Nicholas Wade

Image

“One of the strangest features of human anatomy, when people are compared with the other 200 monkey and ape species in the primate family,…

Nicholas Wade

Image

Explore all 55 Nicholas Wade quotes

More Racism quotes

Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each…

Jeremy Limn

Image

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and…

Grace Lee Boggs

Image

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a…

David Simon

Image

If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.

Salman Rushdie

Image

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and…

Dale Carnegie

Image

We have to build our own power. We have to win every single political office we can, where we have a majority of black…

Fannie Lou Hamer

Image

Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body.

Daryl Davis

Image

The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.

Anonymous

Image

Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me…

Cybill Shepherd

Image

This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.

Sonia Sotomayor