Julian Huxley Quotes

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

The human race will be the cancer of the planet.

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

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

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

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

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

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

Human potentialities constitute the world's greatest resource.

Quantity of material production can only be a means to a further end, not an end in itself.

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

Will our Philosophy to later Life Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth, Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?

We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.

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

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.