Science Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

— Aldous Huxley

“Even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes even science.”

— Aldous Huxley

We can't allow science to undo its own good work.

— Aldous Huxley

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

— Aldous Huxley

Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.

— Aldous Huxley

“You can’t learn a science unless you know what it’s all about.”

— Aldous Huxley

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

— Aldous Huxley

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

— Aldous Huxley

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

— Aldous Huxley

“The only cure for science is more science, not less. We are suffering from the effects of a little science badly applied.…

— Aldous Huxley

“But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable; fact does not.”

— Aldous Huxley

“They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.”

— Aldous Huxley

“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make a choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and…

— Aldous Huxley

“The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery…

— Aldous Huxley

“Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics is not enough, nor is love, nor…

— Aldous Huxley

“Yes," Mustapha Mond was saying, "that's another item in the cost of stability. It isn't only art that's incompatible with happiness; it's…

— Aldous Huxley

“I was a pretty good physicist in my time. Too good—good enough to realize that all our science is just a cookery…

— Aldous Huxley

From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals…

— Aldous Huxley

Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made…

— Aldous Huxley

“Every change is a menace to stability. That’s another reason why we’re so chary of applying new inventions. Every discovery in pure…

— Aldous Huxley

Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can…

— Aldous Huxley

“is only by means of the sciences of life that the quality of life can be radically changed. The sciences of matter…

— Aldous Huxley

Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that…

— Aldous Huxley

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to…

— Aldous Huxley

“Önerme şudur: Beyin, sinir sistemi ve duyu organlarının işlevi aslında eleyicidir, üretici değil. Her insan, her an kendi başına gelenleri anımsamak ve…

— Aldous Huxley

“Only the middle distance and what may be called the remoter foreground are strictly human. When we look very near or very…

— Aldous Huxley

“Science? The Savage frowned. He knew the word. But what it exactly signified he could not say. Shakespeare and the old men…

— Aldous Huxley

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

— Aldous Huxley

It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully…

— Aldous Huxley

“Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z…”

— Aldous Huxley

Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say…

— Aldous Huxley

I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion…

— Aldous Huxley

All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list…

— Aldous Huxley

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be…

— Aldous Huxley

“Science may be defined as the reduction of multiplicity to unity. It seeks to explain the endlessly diverse phenomena of nature by…

— Aldous Huxley

“They seemed to have imagined that scientific progress could be allowed to go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the…

— Aldous Huxley