John B. S. Haldane Quotes
"A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult."
- John B. S. Haldane
(Related: Company)
"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 B. S. Haldane
(Related: Thought, Belief, Humanity, Martyrs, May, Suspicion, Will)
"Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins."
- John B. S. Haldane
(Related: Life, Brother, Brothers)
"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 B. S. Haldane
(Related: Success, Failure, Environment, Heredity)
"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 B. S. Haldane
(Related: Politics, Science)
"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size."
- John B. S. Haldane
(Related: Socialism)
"There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god."
- John B. S. Haldane
(Related: God, Fire, Flying, Insult, Invention)
"There can be no truce between science and religion."
- John B. S. Haldane
(Related: Religion, Science)
"And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art."
- John B. S. Haldane
(Related: Art, Science, Artists, Poets)
"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
- John B. S. Haldane
(Related: Suspicion, Universe)
"It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine."
- John B. S. Haldane
(Related: Universe)
"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 B. S. Haldane
(Related: Thought, Emotion, Fact, Words)
"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 B. S. Haldane
(Related: Nature, God, Beetles, Creation, Stars, Study)
"I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma."
- John B. S. Haldane
(Related: Voice)
"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
- John B. S. Haldane
(Related: Fear, Present, Research)
"The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern."
- John B. S. Haldane
(Related: Business, Concern, Desire, Extreme, Nation)
"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 B. S. Haldane
(Related: Health, Soul)