Huxley Quotes

30 quotes by 22 authors

Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when… — Karl Pearson
It wasn't until after I'd been around Timothy Leary, Aldous Huxley and Alan Watts, that I started to reflect about issues like the evolution of… — Ram Dass
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely… — H. L. Mencken
Much of the geographical work of the past hundred years... has either explicitly or implicitly taken its inspiration from biology, and in particular Darwin. Many… — David Stoddart
I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley — Charles Darwin
This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in their… — H. L. Mencken
I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into… — Arthur Koestler
When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most… — Charles Lyell
The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held… — Albert J. Nock
[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with… — Henry James
Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific… — Michael Behe
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from… — Gerald R. Ford
Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence… — Adrian Desmond
A man got up [after one of Huxley's 'sermons'] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem… — Adrian Desmond
People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write… — Charles Darwin
Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. — Aldous Huxley
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind… — Neil Postman
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are… — Aldous Huxley
God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing… — Aldous Huxley

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