Miscellaneous Quotes

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“Caucasian” was originally a geographical term that had nothing to do with race. No one knows exactly how it came to be accepted as a racial term or as a color no one knows. Today of course we know that race has no scientific meaning, and that all humans are descended from the same ancestors in Africa. Note that the original “Caucasians” included people of many skin colors and features—from Russians and people from the Baltic to North Africans and the many skin shades of India.


Note the observation about tobacco. Even then it was recognized as addicting despite the testimonies of tobacco executives who lied in Congressional Testimony more than 100 years later


This was one of Robert Kennedy’s favorite quotes. Though his version is unique, the original idea comes from the book, Back to Methuselah. See George Bernard Shaw. {642128} The great American Scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, had expressed a variant of the idea in {639985} .


He also repeated this quotation in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in 1951.