Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.
Interpretation
False beliefs and misconceptions inevitably lead to harmful actions.
Julian Huxley's quote highlights the detrimental effects of misguided thinking on behavior. It emphasizes that when individuals hold onto false beliefs, their actions will likely be misaligned with reality, ultimately resulting in negative consequences. The quote serves as a reminder of the importance of critical thinking and striving for truth, as our thoughts influence our actions and the world around us.
In practice
In a speech about critical thinking, one could illustrate the dangers of false thinking using this quote.
...any belief in supernatural creators, rulers, or influencers of natural or human process introduces an irreparable split into the universe, and prevents us from grasping its real unity. Any belief in Absolutes, whether the absolute validity of moral commandments, of authority of revelation, of inner certitudes, or of divine inspiration, erects a formidable barrier against progress and the responsibility of improvement, moral, rational, and religious.
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.
Today the god hypothesis has ceased to be scientifically tenable, has lost its explanatory value and is becoming an intellectual and moral burden to our thought. It no longer convinces or comforts, and its abandonment often brings a deep sense of relief.
Will our Philosophy to later Life_x000D_ _x000D_ Seem but a crudeness of the planet's youth,_x000D_ _x000D_ Our Wisdom but a parasite of Truth?
The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It will inevitably become one of the cornerstones of man's theology, or whatever may be the future substitute for theology, and the most important external support for human ethics.
They think that intelligence is about noticing things are relevant (detecting patterns); in a complex world, intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant (avoiding false patterns)
Beginners focus on analysis, but professionals operate in a three dimensional space. They are aware of trading psychology their own feelings and the mass psychology of the markets.
So many hours must I take my rest;_x000D_ _x000D_ So many hours must I contemplate.
Crowns have their compass-length of days their date-_x000D_ _x000D_ Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate-_x000D_ _x000D_ Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker,_x000D_ _x000D_ But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
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