J. Philippe Rushton Quotations

Regardless of the extent to which the media promote "politically correct," but scientifically wrong, resolutions from professional societies such as the American Anthropological Association, facts remain facts and require appropriate scientific, not political or ideological, explanation. None of this should be construed as meaning that environmental factors play no part in individual and group differences. But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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