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The upward progress of terrestrial life towards individuality has found apparently insurmountable obstacles, gross material difficulties before it, but once more through consciousness it finds wings, and, laughing at matter, flies over lightly where it could not climb.

— Julian Huxley The Individual in the Animal Kingdom (1912)

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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)

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