Julian Huxley Quote

Modem civilisation rests upon physical science; take away her gifts to our own country, and our position among the leading nations of the world is gone to-morrow; for it is physical science only that makes intelligence and moral energy stronger than brute force.

Collected Essays (Volume 8), Discourses, Biological and Geological, A Lobster; or, The Study of Zoology (p. 226)