“Even science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy. Yes even science.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable; fact does not.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“They had not yet learned to draw the significant but often very fine distinction between smut and pure science.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z....” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't think there is any incompatibility between science and mysticism . . . Immanent religion is the only form of religion… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“They seemed to have imagined that scientific progress could be allowed to go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics is not enough, nor is love, nor… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Önerme şudur: Beyin, sinir sistemi ve duyu organlarının işlevi aslında eleyicidir, üretici değil. Her insan, her an kendi başına gelenleri anımsamak ve… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Only the middle distance and what may be called the remoter foreground are strictly human. When we look very near or very… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Science? The Savage frowned. He knew the word. But what it exactly signified he could not say. Shakespeare and the old men… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The more science discovers and the more comprehension it gives us of the mechanisms of existence, the more clearly does the mystery… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The only cure for science is more science, not less. We are suffering from the effects of a little science badly applied.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Science may be defined as the reduction of multiplicity to unity. It seeks to explain the endlessly diverse phenomena of nature by… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“is only by means of the sciences of life that the quality of life can be radically changed. The sciences of matter… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Then what’s time for?” asked Lenina in some astonishment. Apparently, for going on walks in the Lake District; for that was what he now… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image