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“The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.”
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Julian Huxley
#Spiritual Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
#Doubt Quotes
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“Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.”
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Julian Huxley
#Synthesis Quotes
#Evolution Quotes
#Modern Quotes
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“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.”
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Julian Huxley
#Past Quotes
#Race Quotes
#Views Quotes
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“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.”
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Julian Huxley
#Stars Quotes
#Lying Quotes
#Moon Quotes
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“Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.”
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Julian Huxley
Source : "Traveller's Library (Religion and Science: Old Wine in New Bottles)". Book edited by William Somerset Maugham, 1933.
#Thinking Quotes
#Sooner Or Later Quotes
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“Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.”
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Julian Huxley
#Tools Quotes
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“How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!'”
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Julian Huxley
#Atheism Quotes
#Vengeance Quotes
#Lord Quotes
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“...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.”
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Julian Huxley
#Religious Quotes
#Real Quotes
#Inspiration Quotes
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“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.”
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Julian Huxley
Source : Robert Fritz (1986). “The Path of Least Resistance: Principles for Creating what You Want to Create”, Stillpoint Pub
#Rivers Quotes
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“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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Julian Huxley
#Wall Quotes
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#House Quotes
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“Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief.”
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Julian Huxley
Source : "Essays of a Humanist (The New Divinity)". Book by Julian Huxley, 1964.
#Atheist Quotes
#Relief Quotes
#Today Quotes
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“Will our Philosophy to later Life Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth, Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?”
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Julian Huxley
#Philosophy Quotes
#Youth Quotes
#Parasites Quotes
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“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.”
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Julian Huxley
#Destiny Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Support Quotes
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“Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.”
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Julian Huxley
#Powerful Quotes
#Ideas Quotes
#Earth Quotes
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“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.”
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Julian Huxley
#Book Quotes
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