"The popular and scientific views of "race" no……" — Julian Huxley
"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
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14 Quotes by Julian Huxley
Julian Huxley has 14 quotes on this site.
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Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.
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Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.
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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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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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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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