Julian Huxley Short Quotes

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Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

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Facts are too bulky to be lugged about conveniently except on the wheels of theory.

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Science, like Empires, have their rise and their time of flourishing, though not their decay.

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Evolution...is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

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"Know me, know my frog" — that is, I think, a legitimate adaptation of the old proverb for the biologist.

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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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And all about the cosmic sky, The black that lies beyond our blue, Dead stars innumerable lie, And stars of red and angry hue Not dead but doomed to die.

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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.

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The brain alone is not responsible for mind, even though it is a necessary organ for its manifestation. Indeed an isolated brain is a piece of biological nonsense.

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Energy. I am energy. Sublime and meaningless Energy. I stream in floods across the empty ocean Of space, where island-universes float, Each like a little lonely boat.

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Imagination is needed in science as much as in any other mental activity. But it must not take charge of the scientific mind. If it [were to] do, disaster may follow.

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Let me remind my readers that the term divine did not originally imply the existence of gods: on the contrary, gods were constructed to interpret man's experiences of this quality.

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To discover the real nature of things, we must discard all prejudices, all purely instinctive ways of thinking, and labour along the stony but sure path of reason and verification.

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Birds in general are stupid, in the sense of being little able to meet unforeseen emergencies; but their lives are often emotional, and their emotions are richly and finely expressed.

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The Kink in empty space that provides resistance, Precious inertia — mine the sole foundation On which swift Energy's flow of fluid emanation Fraternally builds reality into existence.

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It is no longer possible to maintain that science and religion must operate in thought-tight compartments or concern separate sectors of life; they are both relevant to the whole of human existence.

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