Julian Huxley Quotes

#1. 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.'.

Julian Huxley

#2. You have to realize the truth of biologist Julian Huxley's idea that 'Life is just one damn relatedness after another' So you must have the models, and you must see the relatedness and the effects from the relatedness.

Charlie Munger

#3. 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.

Julian Huxley

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

Julian Huxley

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

Julian Huxley

#6. With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.

Aristotle.

#7. What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life ... Things can be good enough.

Patricia MacLachlan

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

Julian Huxley

#9. When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Honore De Balzac

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

Julian Huxley

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

Julian Huxley

#12. I've never really felt like a journalist. I've felt like a writer and a diarist. I have made myself vulnerable in my writing, and I think that vulnerability makes people strong. My favorite performances or works of art are always people showing that side of themselves.

Tavi Gevinson

#13. 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.

Julian Huxley

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

Julian Huxley

#15. Does drinking make you wittier? One might as well ask if witting makes you drinkier, which it may.

Benjamin Errett

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

Julian Huxley

#17. I originally started redoing houses to deal with stress. I found that the hour I could go to a job site every day took my mind off the 24/7 of thinking about my clients.

Sandy Gallin

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

Julian Huxley

#19. 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.

Julian Huxley

#20. Well, good for you, a breakthrough. The Neanderthals will be pleased to have their leader back.

Kate Stewart

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

Julian Huxley

#22. 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.

Julian Huxley

#23. All my life I've read that the life of the mind is preeminent, and that it can transcend all bodily degradation. But that's just not my experience. When your body has to deal all day with shit and string beans, your mind does too.

Marilyn French

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

Julian Huxley

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

Julian Huxley

#26. Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

Mary Ruefle

#27. Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

Julian Huxley

#28. Dance music cannot compete with a really great rock n' roll song. There ain't no DJ that's gonna play something that can take 'Mr Brightside' or 'Don't Look Back In Anger.'

Brandon Flowers

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

Julian Huxley

#30. Quoi?" she had said, in perfect fucking French.

Christopher Moore

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

Julian Huxley

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

Julian Huxley

#33. The better question was, what was holding us prisoners?

Skye Warren

#34. 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.

Julian Huxley

#35. Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known

Thomas M. Disch