Aldous Huxley Quotes About Science
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The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.
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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 nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.
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Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.
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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 with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life.
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
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