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… — Julian Huxley Copy Share
Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth. — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist the press and the radio and the cinema to the fullest extent in the service of formal and adult education, of science and learning, of art and culture. The general one is to see that these… — Julian Huxley Copy Share
“As I see it the world is undoubtedly in need of a new religion, and that religion must be founded on humanist principles. When I say religion, I do not mean merely a theology involving belief in a supernatural god or gods; nor do I mean merely a system of ethics, however exalted; nor only scientific knowledge, however extensive; nor… — Julian Huxley Copy Share
By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a… — Julian Huxley Copy Share
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… — Julian Huxley Copy Share
God is one among several hypotheses to account for the phenomena of human destiny, and it is now proving to be an inadequate hypothesis. To a great many people, including myself, this realization is a great relief, both intellectually and morally. It frees us to explore the real phenomena for which the God hypothesis seeks to account, to define them… — Julian Huxley Copy Share
It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing. — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“The world of things entered your infant mind To populate that crystal cabinet. Within its walls the strangest partners met, And things turned thoughts… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
Quantity of material production can only be a means to a further end, not an end in itself. — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
The implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a World Organization. . .Political unification in some sort of World Government… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
“There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution.” — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any sharpness of… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
