Top 20 Julian Huxley Quotes (2024 Update)

Julian Huxley Quote: “Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself.”

1. “Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself.”

— Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley Quote: “The human race will be the cancer of the planet.”

2. “The human race will be the cancer of the planet.”

— Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley Quote: “The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.”

3. “The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.”

— Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley Quote: “Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.”

4. “Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.”

— Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley Quote: “Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.”

5. “Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.”

— Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley Quote: “It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.”

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

— Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley Quote: “Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.”

7. “Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.”

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Julian Huxley Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Julian Huxley Quote: “Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.”

9. “Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.”

— Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley Quote: “Human potentialities constitute the world’s greatest resource...”

10. “Human potentialities constitute the world’s greatest resource...”

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Julian Huxley Quote: “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. In truth, the whole progress of civilization is based upon this power.”

11. “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. In truth, the whole progress of civilization is based upon this power.”

— Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Julian Huxley Quote: “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.”

13. “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

Julian Huxley Quote: “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 fulfilling its real destiny.”

14. “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 fulfilling its real destiny.”

— Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley Quote: “The god hypothesis is no longer of any pragmatic value for the interpretation or comprehension of nature, and indeed often stands in the way of better and truer interpretation. Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire Cat.”

15. “The god hypothesis is no longer of any pragmatic value for the interpretation or comprehension of nature, and indeed often stands in the way of better and truer interpretation. Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire Cat.”

— Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley Quote: “Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire Cat.”

16. “Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire Cat.”

— Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley Quote: “Applied physics and chemistry bring more grist to the mill; applied biology will also be capable of changing the mill itself.”

17. “Applied physics and chemistry bring more grist to the mill; applied biology will also be capable of changing the mill itself.”

— Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley Quote: “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.”

18. “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

Julian Huxley Quote: “How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said ‘Vengeance is mine!’”

19. “How unfortunate for mankind that the Lord is reported by Holy Writ as having said ‘Vengeance is mine!’”

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Julian Huxley Quote: “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 may be,’ said the philosopher, ’but a theologian would have found it.”

20. “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 may be,’ said the philosopher, ’but a theologian would have found it.”

— Julian Huxley

Julian Huxley Quote: “Quantity of material production can only be a means to a further end, not an end in itself.”

21. “Quantity of material production can only be a means to a further end, not an end in itself.”

— Julian Huxley

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