"Evolution... is the most powerful and the most……" — Julian Huxley
"Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth."
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Julian Huxley
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14 Quotes by Julian Huxley
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Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.
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The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of…
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Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of…
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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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To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering…
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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…
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...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe,…
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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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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.
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The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has…
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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;…
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