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• 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.

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  Science, Destiny, Men

  Julian Huxley (1957). “New Bottles for New Wine: Essays”

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• ...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

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  Honesty, Memories, Discovery

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• 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.

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  Reality, Technique, Realizing

  Julian Huxley (1957). “New Bottles for New Wine: Essays”

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• The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any sharpness of meaning. To-day it is hardly definable in scientific terms, except as an abstract concept which may, under certain conditions, very different from those now prevalent, have been realized approximately in the past and might, under certain other but equally different conditions, be realized in the distant future.

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  Past, Race, Views

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• Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

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  Synthesis, Evolution, Modern

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• 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.

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  Aliens, Generalists, Remembered

  "Memories". Book by Julian Huxley, 1970.

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• Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

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  Tools, Concepts

  Julian Huxley (1944). “Man in the Modern World”

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• 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.

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  Money, Size, Way

  "Philosophic Ants". "The Borzoi Reader", edited by Carl Van Doren, p. 548, 1936.

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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; 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.

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  Book, Eye, Pride

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

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  Mean, Ends, Materials

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• 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.

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  God, Religious, Rivers

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• Will our Philosophy to later Life
  Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth,
  Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?

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  Life, Wisdom, Philosophy

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• 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.

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  Moving, Book, Writing

  "The Individual in the Animal Kingdom" by Julian Huxley (1912) as quoted in Connie Barlow "From Gaia to Selfish Genes: Selected Writings in the Life Sciences", 1991.

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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 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.

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  Science, Rivers, Lakes

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• ...everything in psychosocial evolution which can properly be called advance, or progress, or improvement, is due directionaly to the increase or improvement of knowledge.

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  Progress, Evolution, Improvement

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