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Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first Director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund and the first President of the British Humanist Association.

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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.

Advance, Evolution, Improvement, Progress, Psychosocial

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.

Cat, Fading, Operationally, Stands, Way

Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself.

Become, Conscious, Evolution, Matter

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends to compensatingly increase and the dictator. . . will do well to encourage that freedom in conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope, movies, and radio. It will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

Conjunction, Dope, Fate, Political, Reconcile, Subjects

Many people assert that this abandonment of the god hypothesis means the abandonment of all religion and all moral sanctions. This is simply not true. But it does mean, once our relief at jettisoning an outdated piece of ideological furniture is over, that we must construct something to take its place.

Doe, Ideological, Mean, Moral, Outdated, People

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

Enormous, Ideas, Sense, Spiritual, Supernatural Beings

Human potentialities constitute the world's greatest resource.

Constitute, Greatest, Human Potential, Potentialities, Resources, World

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.

House, Keys, Round, Science, Searching, Wall

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

Arisen, Comprehensive, Earth, Ideas, Powerful, Science

There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist the press and the radio and the cinema to the fullest extent in the service of formal and adult education, of science and learning, of art and culture. The general one is to see that these agencies are used both to contribute to mutual comprehension between different nations and cultures, and also to promote the growth of a common outlook shared by all nations and cultures.

Agency, Art, Common, Mutual, Promote, Two

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.

Aliens, Generalists, Nothing, Remembered, Specialized, Work

The lowest strata are reproducing too fast. Therefore. . . they must not have too easy access to relief or hospital treatment lest the removal of the last check on natural selection should make it too easy for children to be produced or to survive; long unemployment should be a ground for sterilisation.

Children, Fast, Lasts, Long, Make, Unemployment

The implications of the transfer of full sovereignty from separate nations to a World Organization. . . Political unification in some sort of World Government will be required. . . Even though. . . any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.

Eugenics, Greatest, Implications, Informed, Issues, World Government

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

Believe, Easier, Nothing

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.

Carried, Forgetting, God, Reasoning, Religious, Rivers

Evolution: The Modern Synthesis.

Evolution, Modern, Synthesis

Sir Julian Huxley, one of the world's leading evolutionists, head of UNESCO, descendant of Thomas Huxley - Darwin's bulldog - said on a talk show, 'I suppose the reason we leaped at The Origin of Species was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores. '.

Bulldog, Bulldogs, Ideas, Mores, Origin, World

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.

Book, Dust, Integral, Long, Moving, Writing

Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week. . . The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure.

Two, Needs, Attention, Leisure, Inevitably

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

Ends, Further, Material, Materials, Mean, Production

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