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In developing a full, deep and rich personality the individual ceases to be a mere cog or cipher, and makes his own particular contribution to evolutionary fulfilment.

— Julian Huxley The New Divinity (1964)

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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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