Julian Huxley Quotes

#1. The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.

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#2. To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering aimlessly round and round, searching the walls and now and then peeping through the windows. Facts are the key.

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#3. Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

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#4. The human race will be the cancer of the planet.

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#5. Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

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#6. The zestful but scientific exploration of possibilities and of the techniques for realizing them will make our hopes rational, and will set our ideals within the framework of reality, by showing how much of them are indeed realizable.

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#7. Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

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#8. Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire Cat.

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#9. How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'

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#10. I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Peking man. It will at last be consciously fulfilling its real destiny.

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#11. We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.

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#12. It is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

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#13. Everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge.

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#14. There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution.

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#15. Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.

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#16. If I am to be remembered, I hope it will not be primarily for my specialized scientific work, but as a generalist; one to whom, enlarging Terence's words, nothing human and nothing in external nature was alien.

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#17. Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief.

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#18. Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself.

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#19. Sir Julian Huxley, one of the world's leading evolutionists, head of UNESCO, descendant of Thomas Huxley - Darwin's bulldog - said on a talk show, 'I suppose the reason we leaped at The Origin of Species was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores.'.

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#20. Evolution ... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

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#21. It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.

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