Quotes by Julian Huxley

About Julian Huxley:

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern evolutionary synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first Director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund and the first President of the British Humanist Association.
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Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

Julian Huxley

Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over...

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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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I believe in transhumanism: once there are enough people who can truly say that, the human species will be on the threshold of a new kind of existence, as different from ours as ours is from that of Peking man. It will at last be consciously fulfilli...

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By death the moon was gathered in Long ago, ah long ago; Yet still the silver corpse must spin And with another's light must glow. Her frozen mountains must forget Their primal hot volcanic breath, Doomed to revolve for ages yet, Void amphitheatres o...

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We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.

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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 syst...

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There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution.

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It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.

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I recall the story of the philosopher and the theologian... The two were engaged in disputation and the theologian used the old quip about a philosopher resembling a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat — which wasn't there. ‘That m...

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Author Bio

  • NameJulian Huxley
  • DescriptionEnglish biologist, philosopher, author
  • AliasesJulian Sorell Huxley
  • BornJune 22, 1887
  • DiedFebruary 14, 1975
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionEvolutionary Biologist; Ethologist; Writer
  • AwardsFellow Of The Royal Society; Humanist Of The Year; Kalinga Prize; Darwin Medal; Darwin–Wallace Medal