For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

Huxley’s line frames experience as perpetually renewable: the world does not grow stale in itself; it grows stale to the inattentive observer. The “first day” evokes both personal beginnings and a quasi-Genesis freshness, suggesting that wonder is not a rare gift but a discipline of perception. The phrase “eyes to see” implies trained attention—an attitude closely aligned with scientific inquiry, where novelty emerges from careful looking rather than from exotic subject matter. The quote thus celebrates curiosity and intellectual humility: reality continually exceeds our habits of noticing, and each person can recover a sense of discovery by sharpening observation.