Julian Huxley Quotes About Evolution

Quotes about: Evolution

• It is essential for evolution to become the central core of any educational system, because it is evolution, in the broad sense, that links inorganic nature with life, and the stars with the earth, and matter with mind, and animals with man. Human history is a continuation of biological evolution in a different form.

  Julian Huxley

  Stars, Educational, Men

• Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself.

  Julian Huxley

  Matter, Evolution, Conscious

• Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

  Julian Huxley

  Synthesis, Evolution, Modern

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

  Julian Huxley

  Powerful, Science, Ideas

• 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

  Science, Destiny, Men

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

• ...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, Evolution, Improvement

• 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

  Science, Rivers, Lakes

• This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered. Man is a product of nearly three billion years of evolution, in whose person the evolutionary process has at last become conscious of itself and its possibilities. Whether he likes it or not, he is responsible for the whole further evolution of our planet.

  Julian Huxley

  Men, Years, Mind

  "The New Divinity". "Essays of a Humanist". Book by Julian Huxley, 1964.

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