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Science is vastly more stimula...

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.

John Haldane 88 quotes

[Children] are taught that it ...

[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in later life, and makes it very difficult for them to accept the methods of thought which are successful in science.

John Haldane 88 quotes

It seems to me immensely unlik...

It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.

John Haldane 88 quotes

There can be no truce between ...

There can be no truce between science and religion.

John Haldane 88 quotes

It was a reaction from the old...

It was a reaction from the old idea of 'protoplasm', a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.

John Haldane 88 quotes

The conclusion forced upon me ...

The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is assumed to be in physical science is only an idealized world, while the real universe is the spiritual universe in which spiritual values count for everything.

John Haldane 88 quotes

A fairly bright boy is far mor...

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

John Haldane 88 quotes

We do not know, in most cases,...

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 88 quotes

Quantitative work shows clearl...

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 88 quotes

I have no doubt that in realit...

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 88 quotes

Einstein - the greatest Jew si...

Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein's name will still be remembered and revered when Lloyd George, Foch and William Hohenzollern share with Charlie Chaplin that ineluctable oblivion which awaits the uncreative mind.

John Haldane 88 quotes

Shelley and Keats were the las...

Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.

John Haldane 88 quotes

I have never yet met a healthy...

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 88 quotes

My practise as a scientist is ...

My practise as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world. And I should be a coward if I did not state my theoretical views in public.

John Haldane 88 quotes

God has an inordinate fondness...

God has an inordinate fondness for beetles.

John Haldane 88 quotes

If one could conclude as to th...

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.

John Haldane 88 quotes

I will jump into the river to ...

I will jump into the river to save two brothers or eight cousins.

John Haldane 88 quotes

An ounce of algebra is worth a...

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.

John Haldane 88 quotes

Teleology is like a mistress t...

Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.

John Haldane 88 quotes

A fairly bright boy is far mor...

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

John Haldane 88 quotes

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