Julian Huxley famous quotes

03-26-2025

The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.
-- Julian Huxley

#Spiritual #Ideas #Doubt
Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.
-- Julian Huxley

#Synthesis #Evolution #Modern
The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any sharpness of meaning. To-day it is hardly definable in scientific terms, except as an abstract concept which may, under certain conditions, very different from those now prevalent, have been realized approximately in the past and might, under certain other but equally different conditions, be realized in the distant future.
-- Julian Huxley

#Past #Race #Views
By death the moon was gathered in Long ago, ah long ago; Yet still the silver corpse must spin And with another's light must glow. Her frozen mountains must forget Their primal hot volcanic breath, Doomed to revolve for ages yet, Void amphitheatres of death. And all about the cosmic sky, The black that lies beyond our blue, Dead stars innumerable lie, And stars of red and angry hue Not dead but doomed to die.
-- Julian Huxley

#Stars #Lying #Moon
Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.
-- Julian Huxley

#Thinking #Sooner Or Later
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
-- Julian Huxley

#Tools
How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'
-- Julian Huxley

#Atheism #Vengeance #Lord
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents us from grasping its real unity. Any belief in Absolutes, whether the absolute validity of moral commandments, of authority of revelation, of inner certitudes, or of divine inspiration, erects a formidable barrier against progress and the responsibility of improvement, moral, rational, and religious.
-- Julian Huxley

#Religious #Real #Inspiration
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or recombination, is one of the most important results of mathematical analysis applied to the facts of neo-mendelism. It gives accident as well as adaptation a place in evolution, and at one stroke explains many facts which puzzled earlier selectionists, notably the much greater degree of divergence shown by island than mainland forms, by forms in isolated lakes than in continuous river-systems.
-- Julian Huxley

#Rivers #Lakes #Islands
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

#Wall #Keys #House
Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief.
-- Julian Huxley

#Atheist #Relief #Today
Will our Philosophy to later Life Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth, Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?
-- Julian Huxley

#Philosophy #Youth #Parasites
The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It will inevitably become one of the cornerstones of man's theology, or whatever may be the future substitute for theology, and the most important external support for human ethics.
-- Julian Huxley

#Destiny #Men #Support
Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.
-- Julian Huxley

#Powerful #Ideas #Earth
Amoeba has her picture in the book, Proud Protozoon!-Yet beware of pride, All she can do is fatten and divide; She cannot even read, or sew, or cook... The Worm can crawl But has no eyes to look. The Jelly-fish can swim But lacks a bride.
-- Julian Huxley

#Book #Eye #Pride

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