"To speculate without facts is to attempt to……" — Julian Huxley
"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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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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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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You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been…
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First, recognize that you are not a sheep who will be satisfied with only a few nibbles of dry grass…
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There is more genuine joy in climbing the hill of success, even though sweat may be spent and toes may…
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I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this…
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I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God…
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The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he…
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