Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.

Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races.

To deny the predictive validity of race at this level is nonscientific and unrealistic.

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans.

I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

Race differences show up early in life.

Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.

Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits.

Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.

We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.

Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.

Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.

Sometimes it is claimed by those who argue that race is just a social construct that the human genome project shows that because people share roughly 99% of their genes in common, that there are no races. This is silly.

Those objecting to the concept of race argue that the taxonomic definitions are arbitrary and subjective.

To be perfectly honest, I can't imagine getting married. I've got a lot to do before I have children - they are way off.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

You have to do the right thing... You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing there will be no result.

Everything ultimately becomes the CEO's problem, no matter where it starts. I can see why some CEOs crack under the pressure.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

The good thing about TV is that you can still watch the product, even if you're not in charge of it anymore.

I came out of the womb drawing on everything; I used to draw on my mother's white furniture and her white walls with her red lipstick and my pencils. Little did she know that would later materialize into me doing what I do now - I'm a painter as well and a micromechanical engineer.

Dance is not endangered - it will always find a way to express itself.

'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.

Affection is created by habit community of interests convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.

One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.

Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating but they dont look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes dont back up their beards.

Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they'll be here long after us. They're the only things standing after a hurricane.

The spirit of revelation is available to every person who receives by proper priesthood authority the saving ordinances of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins and the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost - and who is acting in faith to fulfill the priesthood injunction to 'receive the Holy Ghost.'

It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing over the top. And as an instrument for solos, you can bend notes, draw emotional content out of tiny movements, vibratos and tonal things which even a piano can't do.

Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They dont want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy

There is nothing this confused world needs more, nothing that inspires a greater sense of well-being, nothing that has greater power to strengthen families than the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.