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John B. S. Haldane
British
Scientist
About the author
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,
British
Scientist
#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,
British
Scientist
#Science
#Politics
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.
John B. S. Haldane,
British
Scientist
#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,
British
Scientist
#God
#Insult
#Invention
#Fire
#Flying
There can be no truce between science and religion.
John B. S. Haldane,
British
Scientist
#Science
#Religion
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,
British
Scientist
#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,
British
Scientist
#Universe
#Suspicion
It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.
John B. S. Haldane,
British
Scientist
#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,
British
Scientist
#Words
#Thought
#Fact
#Emotion
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,
British
Scientist
#God
#Study
#Stars
#Nature
#Creation
#Beetles
I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
John B. S. Haldane,
British
Scientist
#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,
British
Scientist
#Fear
#Research
#Present
The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
John B. S. Haldane,
British
Scientist
#Desire
#Nation
#Business
#Concern
#Extreme
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,
British
Scientist
#Soul
#Health
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 B. S. Haldane,
British
Scientist
#Art
#Science
#Man
#Theories
#Religion
#Fact
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
John B. S. Haldane,
British
Scientist
#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,
British
Scientist
#Will
#Thought
#May
#Belief
#Humanity
#Suspicion
#Martyrs
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,
British
Scientist
#Life
#Brothers
#Brother