Aldous Huxley Quotes on Science (10 Quotes)

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 mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

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.

Ignore death up to the last moment then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh

We are living now, not in the delicious intoxication induced by the early successes of science, but in a rather grisly morning-after, when it has become apparent that what triumphant science has done hitherto is to improve the means for achieving unimproved or actually deteriorated ends.

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.''

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

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

I admit that mathematical science is a good thing. But excessive devotion to it is a bad thing.

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