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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. His bibliography spans nearly 50 books, including non-fiction works, as well as essays, narratives and poems.
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culture · English writer and philosopher (1894–1963) · poet · novelist · philosopher · screenwriter · science fiction writer · prose writer · university teacher · journalist · writer · art critic · also Aldous Huxley, Huxley
Born 26 July 1894 · Died 22 November 1963 · Q81447
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2026· 10 entries
The Friday Times: Between Orwell’s Nightmare And Huxley’s Dream: The Dystopia We Built Ourselves
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KQRadio: Webster City, Roland-Story and Eagle Grove cross country run at Mike Carr Invitational in Huxley
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Kaos en la Red: Vídeo: Aldous Huxley hablando de la dictadura del futuro
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Yahoo: Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World': Why It's Still a Top Science Fiction Novel Today
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“Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
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“I can hardly see at all. And I don”
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“...a book unique, so far as my knowledge goes, in the literature of hagiography. Never have the small events of a contemplative”
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“The mystical experience is doubly valuable; it is valuable because it gives the experiencer a better understanding of himself and the world and because it may help him to lead a less self-centered and more creative life.”
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“The ethical and philosophical implications of modern science are more Buddhist than Christian....”
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2025· 2 entries
The New Yorker: Aldous Huxley in the World Beyond Time
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MutualArt.com: Aldous Huxley
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: Brave New World by Fred Fordham review – brilliant Huxley reboot
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2021· 1 entry
Huxley was one of six British writers commemorated on a series of British postage stamps issued by Royal Mail to celebrate British science fiction
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2020· 3 entries
Moviefone: Aldous Huxley and the Brave New World (2020) - Where to Watch
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The Guardian: From Aldous Huxley to the Beatles: how LSD has inspired art
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Dollars) as a screenwriter, and that he used much of it to transport Jewish and left-wing writer and artist refugees from Hitler's Germany to the US
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2019· 2 entries
Yahoo: Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’ Adaptation Set at USA Network With Straight-to-Series Order
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Yahoo: ‘Brave New World’ Drama Based On Aldous Huxley Novel Moves From Syfy To USA With Series Order
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2017· 1 entry
Los Angeles Times: Reading ‘Brave New World’ in Aldous Huxley’s former home
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2016· 4 entries
Los Angeles Times: Happy birthday, Aldous Huxley!
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Published “Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents” in The Lancet — cited 2,342 times.
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Published “Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents” in The Lancet — cited 2,296 times.
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“Citation choisie pour le 7 novembre 2016.”
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: David Hofmeyr on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World: 'a subversive, cool and unsettling work of genius'
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2014· 4 entries
The Guardian: The 100 best novels: No 56 – Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932)
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The Guardian: Forget Orwell and Huxley. Dave Eggers has seen the future
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The Guardian: Taking the Edge Off: an Aldous Huxley study that's a bit like a bad trip – review
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“by Colin Marshall, in Open Culture (8 December 2014) Maria Huxley, Aldous Huxley”
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2012· 1 entry
“(ang. The Doors of Perception; tłum. Marta Mikita, Wydawnictwo Cień Kształtu, Warszawa 2012)”
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2010· 1 entry
She told the story of their marriage through Mary Ann Braubach's 2010 documentary, Huxley on Huxley.
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2007· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 19 octobre 2007.”
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2006· 1 entry
“Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.”
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2004· 1 entry
“(ang. Island; tłum. Sławomir J. Białostocki, Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne, 2004)”
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2003· 1 entry
The New Criterion: What happened to Aldous Huxley
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2000· 2 entries
Published “Superconductivity on the border of itinerant-electron ferromagnetism in UGe2” in Nature — cited 1,460 times.
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Published “Superconductivity on the border of itinerant-electron ferromagnetism in UGe2” in Nature — cited 1,477 times.
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1997· 2 entries
Published “Signaling Recognition Events with Fluorescent Sensors and Switches” in Chemical Reviews — cited 6,553 times.
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Published “Signaling Recognition Events with Fluorescent Sensors and Switches” in Chemical Reviews — cited 6,598 times.
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1971· 2 entries
Published “Proposed Mechanism of Force Generation in Striated Muscle” in Nature — cited 1,689 times.
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Published “Proposed Mechanism of Force Generation in Striated Muscle” in Nature — cited 1,703 times.
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1969· 2 entries
Published “The Mechanism of Muscular Contraction” in Science — cited 1,473 times.
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Published “The Mechanism of Muscular Contraction” in Science — cited 1,487 times.
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1966· 2 entries
Published “The variation in isometric tension with sarcomere length in vertebrate muscle fibres” in The Journal of Physiology — cited 2,404 times.
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Published “The variation in isometric tension with sarcomere length in vertebrate muscle fibres” in The Journal of Physiology — cited 2,438 times.
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1963· 17 entries
Died 1963-11-22.
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“Nigdy tak wielu nie było manipulowanych przez tak nielicznych.”
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“Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.”
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“I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”
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“Wydaje mi się, że sztuka jest dla początkujących lub dla tych, którzy postanowili być usatysfakcjonowani ersatzem Istotowości, symbolami raczej niż tym, co oznaczają, elegancko przedstawionym przepisem zamiast prawdziwej kolacji.”
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“Jak bardzo ekspresywne by nie były, symbole nigdy nie mogą stać się rzeczami, które reprezentują.”
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“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
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“Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing.”
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“To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. (ang.)”
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“Dopóki ludzie będą wielbić Cezarów i Napoleonów, dopóty będą się oni regularnie pojawiać i unieszczęśliwiać ludzkość.”
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. (ang.)”
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“Of course I base my characters partly on the people I know—one can't escape it—but fictional characters are oversimplified; they're much less complex than the people one knows.”
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“Words are good servants but bad masters.”
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“Tajemnica szczęścia i cnoty tkwi w tym, by lubić to, co musi się robić.”
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“Rzeczy i wydarzenia, do których odnoszą się symbole, należą do wspólnie wykluczających się sfer doświadczeń.”
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“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”
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“Death, it’s the only thing we haven’t succeeded in completely vulgarizing. (ang.)”
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1960· 1 entry
Huxley was diagnosed with oral cancer, and for the next three years his health steadily declined
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1959· 2 entries
“Collected Essays - Página 310; de Aldous Huxley - Publicado por Harper, 1959 - 399 páginas”
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Huxley turned down an offer to be made a Knight Bachelor by the Macmillan government without giving a reason; his brother Julian had been knighted in 1958, while his brother Andrew would be knighted in 1974
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1957· 2 entries
Published “Muscle Structure and Theories of Contraction” in Progress in Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry — cited 2,269 times.
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Published “Muscle Structure and Theories of Contraction” in Progress in Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry — cited 2,226 times.
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1956· 2 entries
Huxley married Laura Archera (1911–2007), also an author, as well as a violinist and psychotherapist
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“Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and Other Essays: And Other Essays" - Página 80; de Aldous Huxley - Publicado por Harper, 1956 - 301 páginas”
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1954· 4 entries
Published “Structural Changes in Muscle During Contraction: Interference Microscopy of Living Muscle Fibres” in Nature — cited 1,251 times.
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Published “Structural Changes in Muscle During Contraction: Interference Microscopy of Living Muscle Fibres” in Nature — cited 1,278 times.
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Published “Changes in the Cross-Striations of Muscle during Contraction and Stretch and their Structural Interpretation” in Nature — cited 1,303 times.
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Published “Changes in the Cross-Striations of Muscle during Contraction and Stretch and their Structural Interpretation” in Nature — cited 1,268 times.
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1953· 2 entries
Huxley and Maria applied for United States citizenship and presented themselves for examination
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“Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narcohypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.”
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1952· 7 entries
Published “Currents carried by sodium and potassium ions through the membrane of the giant axon of <i>Loligo</i>” in The Journal of Physiology — cited 1,809 times.
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Bennett Cerf was present when Huxley spoke at a Hollywood banquet, wearing no glasses and apparently reading his paper from the lectern without difficulty: Then suddenly he faltered—and the disturbing truth became obviou
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Published “A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve” in The Journal of Physiology — cited 17,818 times.
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Published “Measurement of current‐voltage relations in the membrane of the giant axon of <i>Loligo</i>” in The Journal of Physiology — cited 1,204 times.
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Published “A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve” in The Journal of Physiology — cited 18,081 times.
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Published “Currents carried by sodium and potassium ions through the membrane of the giant axon of <i>Loligo</i>” in The Journal of Physiology — cited 1,832 times.
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Published “Measurement of current‐voltage relations in the membrane of the giant axon of <i>Loligo</i>” in The Journal of Physiology — cited 1,227 times.
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1946· 5 entries
“Limbo: - Vol. 2, Página 247, Aldous Huxley - hatto & Windus, 1946 - 292 páginas”
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“Nur mittels der Wissenschaften vom Leben kann die Beschaffenheit des Lebens von Grund auf verändert werden." - Schöne neue Welt, Vorwort, 1946”
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“Préface Nouvelle de l'auteur de 1946”
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“Die größten Triumphe der Propaganda wurden nicht durch Handeln, sondern durch Unterlassung erreicht. Groß ist die Wahrheit, größer aber, vom praktischen Gesichtspunkt, ist das Verschweigen von Wahrheit." - Schöne neue Welt, Vorwort, 1946”
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“Je mehr sich politische und wirtschaftliche Freiheit verringern, desto mehr pflegt die sexuelle Freiheit sich kompensatorisch auszuweiten." - Schöne neue Welt, Vorwort, 1946”
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1945· 1 entry
To write a script based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and the biography of the story's author, Lewis Carroll
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1944· 1 entry
Huxley wrote the introduction to the Bhagavad Gita – The Song of God, translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood, which was published by the Vedanta Society of Southern California
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1942· 1 entry
The Gospel of Ramakrishna was published by the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center in New York
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1940· 2 entries
“s 1940 book Hopousia or The Sexual and Economic Foundations of a New Society. On 21 October 1949 Huxley wrote to George Orwell, a former student of Huxley at Eton and author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, congratulating him on”
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Huxley relocated from Hollywood to a 40-acre (16 ha) ranchito in the high desert hamlet of Llano, California, in northern Los Angeles County
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1939· 2 entries
Awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize for After Many a Summer (1939).
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And continuing until his death in 1963, Huxley had an extensive association with the Vedanta Society of Southern California, founded and headed by Swami Prabhavananda
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1938· 1 entry
Huxley befriended Jiddu Krishnamurti, whose teachings he greatly admired
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1937· 1 entry
Huxley moved to Hollywood, Los Angeles, United States, with his wife Maria, son Matthew Huxley, and friend Gerald Heard
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1932· 1 entry
“Aldous Huxley in: "Brave New World: A Novel" - Página 23; de Aldous Huxley - Publicado por Doubleday, Doran, 1932 - 311 páginas”
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1930· 3 entries
“Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey" - Página 289; de Aldous Huxley - Publicado por Chatto and Windus, 1930 - 291 páginas”
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“Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey" - Página 136; de Aldous Huxley - Publicado por Chatto and Windus, 1930 - 291 páginas”
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(he and Maria were present at his death in Provence), Huxley edited Lawrence's letters (1932)
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1929· 1 entry
In London, Huxley met Gerald Heard, a writer and broadcaster, philosopher and interpreter of contemporary science
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1928· 1 entry
“The Substitutes for Religion, The Religion of Sex”
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1926· 1 entry
“Aldous Huxley Jesting Pilate: The Diary of a Journey. — 1926.”
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1925· 1 entry
“Those Barren Leaves (1925)”
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1920· 1 entry
They had one child, Matthew Huxley (19 April 1920 – 10 February 2005), who had a career as an author, anthropologist and a prominent epidemiologist.
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1919· 1 entry
John Middleton Murry was reorganising the Athenaeum and invited Huxley to join the staff
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1916· 1 entry
And in June of that year graduated BA with first class honours
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1908· 1 entry
When he was 14 (his father later remarried)
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1894· 3 entries
Born 1894-07-26.
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“s 2010 documentary, Huxley on Huxley. Huxley was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer in 1960; in the years that followed, with his health deteriorating, he wrote the utopian novel Island, and gave lectures on”
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“, Open Culture (8 December 2014) Maria Huxley, Aldous Huxley”
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