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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
Religion without Revelation (1957)
Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.
This earth is one of the rare spots in the cosmos where mind has flowered.
The New Divinity (1964)
The world of things entered your infant mind
To populate that crystal cabinet.
Poem in Essays of a Biologist (1923)
In the actual duration of his life, the individual ranges from the bacterium's hour to the big tree's five thousand years.
The Individual in the Animal Kingdom (1912)
Evolution is a process, of which we are products, and in which we are active agents.
The New Divinity (1964)
We are beginning to realize that even the most fortunate people are living far below capacity, and that most human beings develop not more than a small fraction of their potential mental and spiritual efficiency.
Transhumanism (1957)
God is a hypothesis constructed by man to help him understand what existence is all about.
The New Divinity (1964)
Human potentialities constitute the world's greatest resource, but at the moment only a tiny fraction of them is being realized.
The New Divinity (1964)
If such exist, they crown Life's progress...
The Individual in the Animal Kingdom (1912)
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.
In the evolutionary pattern of thought, there is neither need nor room for the supernatural. The earth was not created; it evolved. So did all the animals and plants that inhabit it, including our human selves, mind and soul as well as brain and body. So did religion.
The Humanist Frame (1961)
Whether he likes it or not, he is responsible for the whole further evolution of our planet.
The New Divinity (1964)
Such major organizations of thought may be necessary in science as much as in religion.
The New Divinity (1964)
I believe that an equally drastic reorganization of our pattern of religious thought is now becoming necessary, from a god-centered to an evolutionary-centered pattern.
The New Divinity (1964)
The personality may grievously fail in attaining any real wholeness. One thing is certain, that the well-developed, well-integrated personality is the highest product of evolution, the fullest realization we know of in the universe.
Transhumanism (1957)
Eventually the old ideas will no longer serve... and a radical reconstruction becomes necessary … Such major organizations of thought may be necessary in science as much as in religion.
There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution. There is no basic cleavage between science and religion; they are both organs of evolving humanity.
The New Divinity (1964)
The great men of the past have given us glimpses of what is possible in the way of personality, of intellectual understanding, of spiritual achievement, of artistic creation. But these are scarcely more than Pisgah glimpses.
Transhumanism (1957)
Whether he wants to or not, whether he is conscious of what he is doing or not, he is in point of fact determining the future direction of evolution on this earth.
Transhumanism (1957)