...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone. Julian Huxley More Quotes by Julian Huxley More Quotes From Julian Huxley Evolution: The Modern Synthesis. Julian Huxley modern evolution synthesis Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct. Julian Huxley positive-atheism atheism thinking By speech first, but far more by writing, man has been able to put something of himself beyond death. In tradition and in books an integral part of the individual persists, for it can influence the minds and actions of other people in different places and at different times: a row of black marks on a page can move a man to tears, though the bones of him that wrote it are long ago crumbled to dust. Julian Huxley writing book moving ...everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge. Julian Huxley progress improvement evolution There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist the press and the radio and the cinema to the fullest extent in the service of formal and adult education, of science and learning, of art and culture. The general one is to see that these agencies are used both to contribute to mutual comprehension between different nations and cultures, and also to promote the growth of a common outlook shared by all nations and cultures. Julian Huxley agency media art The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It will inevitably become one of the cornerstones of man's theology, or whatever may be the future substitute for theology, and the most important external support for human ethics. Julian Huxley destiny men science Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth. Julian Huxley powerful science ideas Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience. Julian Huxley concepts tools Will our Philosophy to later Life Julian Huxley wisdom philosophy life 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. Julian Huxley wall keys science How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said 'Vengeance is mine!' Julian Huxley vengeance atheism lord Amoeba has her picture in the book, Proud Protozoon!-Yet beware of pride, All she can do is fatten and divide; She cannot even read, or sew, or cook... The Worm can crawl But has no eyes to look. The Jelly-fish can swim But lacks a bride. Julian Huxley eye pride book The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or recombination, is one of the most important results of mathematical analysis applied to the facts of neo-mendelism. It gives accident as well as adaptation a place in evolution, and at one stroke explains many facts which puzzled earlier selectionists, notably the much greater degree of divergence shown by island than mainland forms, by forms in isolated lakes than in continuous river-systems. Julian Huxley lakes rivers science If I am to be remembered, I hope it will not be primarily for my specialized scientific work, but as a generalist; one to whom, enlarging Terence's words, nothing human and nothing in external nature was alien. Julian Huxley remembered aliens generalists Human potentialities constitute the world's greatest resource. Julian Huxley human-potential resources world The zestful but scientific exploration of possibilities and of the techniques for realizing them will make our hopes rational, and will set our ideals within the framework of reality, by showing how much of them are indeed realizable. Julian Huxley realizing technique reality We are used to discounting the river-gods and dryads of the Greeks as poetical fancies, and even the chief figures in the classical Pantheon-Venus, Minerva, Mars, and the rest-as allegories. But, forgetting that they once carried as much sanctity as our saints and divinities, we refrain from applying the same reasoning to our own objects of worship. Julian Huxley religious god rivers Quantity of material production can only be a means to a further end, not an end in itself. Julian Huxley materials ends mean We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out. Julian Huxley size money way
