"Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be……" — Julian Huxley
"Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable ... and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief."
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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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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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The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every…
— Lloyd deMause
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The greatest security we can have in this world that we are in the grace of God, does not consist…
— Francis of Assisi
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The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead…
— Bertrand Russell
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There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is…
— Ludwig von Mises
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To turn Karl [Popper]'s view on its head, it is precisely the abandonment of critical discourse that marks the transition…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Never self-possessed, or prudent, love is all abandonment.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing…
— R. D. Laing
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The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and…
— Sigmund Freud
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How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or…
— Walter Inglis Anderson
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From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the…
— Patrick Henry
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I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.
— Tilda Swinton
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