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Science Quotes by Aldous Huxley
- Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but…
- Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in…
- All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that…
- Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics are not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor…
- Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.
- Medical science is making such remarkable progress that soon none of us will be well.
- Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.
- Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
- Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
- It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
- Facts are ventriloquist’s dummies. Sitting on a wise man’s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk…
- That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly…
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- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
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- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
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