Quote: A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. [John Haldane]
Quote: I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul. [John Haldane]
Quote: While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced. [John Haldane]
Quote: The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms. [John Haldane]
Quote: My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. [John Haldane]
Quote: Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium. [John Haldane]
Quote: We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve. [John Haldane]
Quote: I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma. [John Haldane]
Quote: In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. [John Haldane]
Quote: And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art. [John Haldane]
Quote: I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear. [John Haldane]
Quote: If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles. [John Haldane]
Quote: It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine. [John Haldane]
Quote: The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. [John Haldane]
Quote: There can be no truce between science and religion. [John Haldane]
Quote: There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. [John Haldane]
Quote: To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. [John Haldane]
Quote: Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins. [John Haldane]
Quote: So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination. [John Haldane]
Quote: So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon thos [John Haldane]
Quote: From the fact there are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals, he concluded that the Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles, and so we might be more likely to meet them than any other type of animal on a planet that would support life. [John Haldane]
Quote: A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. [John Haldane]
Quote: We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve. [John Haldane]
Quote: Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be distributed at random through wild populations, and to follow the laws of chance in their distribution to offspring. In other words, they are an agency producing variation of the kind which Darwin postulated as the raw material on which selection acts. [John Haldane]
Quote: I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. [John Haldane]