Sir Julian Huxley Quotes & Sayings

My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably eager to see faces in random patterns, as we know from scientific evidence, on top of the numerous legends about faces of Jesus, or the Virgin Mary, or Mother Teresa, being seen on slices of toast, or pizzas, or patches of damp on a wall. This eagerness is enhanced if the pattern departs from randomness in the specific direction of being symmetrical. — Richard Dawkins

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault. — Ellen Glasgow

God can dream a bigger dream for me, for you, than you could ever dream for yourself. When you've worked as hard and done as much and strived and tried and given and pled and bargained and hoped ... Surrender.
When you have done all that you can do, and there's nothing left for you to do, give it up. Give it up to that thing that is greater than yourself, and let it then become a part of the flow. — Oprah Winfrey

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science. — Jay Griffiths

Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness. — Simon Cowell

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.'. — Julian Huxley

I just want to be in a winning situation. That's the whole thing. It's nothing financial. — Corey Dillon

No matter what the challenge, Aurore always felt stronger on her own territory. Her deepest faith abided in her vines. She knew her childhood home on Cyprus like she knew her own body. — Suzanne Stroh

Come to my grave someday, and tell me that the North and South are reunited." It — Yeonmi Park

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard. — Dean Norris

Stories want to be told. Stories have a power of their own ... you can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. — Angelica Banks

I always thought that the shortest distance between failure and success is luck. It so appears now that if you account for the wait time, the shortest distance between failure and success is action. — Majid Kazmi

There are certain guys that think they know hockey because they follow it on the Internet. — Paul Coffey

The novelist's business is lying. — Ursula K. Le Guin

That little girl was dead and in her place stood a cold-blooded killer. — Reyna Pryde

I started in movies in Mexico and started doing telenovelas in Mexico. 'American Family' was the first thing I did in English. — Kate Del Castillo