Quotes of: Aldous-huxley Keyword

[repeated line] David Huxley: I'll be with you in a minute, Mr. Peabody!

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The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Collected Essays Of Thomas Henry Huxley

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 puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.

Michael Behe

The library refused many downloads, of course, but I succeeded with two Optimists translated from the Late English, Orwell and Huxley;

Cloud Atlas

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 by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.

Albert J. Nock

David Huxley: When a man is wrestling a leopard in the middle of a pond, he's in no position to run.

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David Huxley: A million dollars! Say, that's pretty white of Mr. Peabody, isn't it?

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Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.

J. G. Ballard

David Huxley: How can all these things happen to just one person?

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Susan Vance: I won't leave you, David! I love you! David Huxley: What?

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Susan Vance: You've just had a bad day, that's all. David Huxley: That's a masterpiece of understatement.

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David Huxley: But Susan, you can't climb in a man's bedroom window! Susan Vance: I know, it's on the second floor!

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Alice Swallow: Oh David, what have you done? David Huxley: Just name anything, and I've done it.

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Mrs. Random: What are you doing? David Huxley: [exasperated and wearing Susan's negligee] I'm sitting in the middle of 42nd Street waiting for a bus!

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[Susan is pretending to be a mobster] David Huxley: Constable, she's making all this up out of motion pictures she's seen! Susan Vance: Oh, I suppose I saw you with that red-headed skirt in a motion picture ? Constable Slocum: There you are doc - ano...

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The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Collected Essays Of Thomas Henry Huxley

History warns us ... that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Collected Essays Of Thomas Henry Huxley

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 ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

Charles Lyell

[David discovers the leopard in Susan's bathroom] David Huxley: Susan, you have to get out of this apartment! Susan Vance: I can't, I have a lease.

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David Huxley: The only way you'll ever get me to follow another of your suggestions is to hold a bright object in front of my eyes and twirl it.

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Dr. Alexander Peabody: Dr. Huxley, when I play golf, I only talk golf - and then only between shots.

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