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• The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.

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  Knowledge, Science, Doe

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• 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 B. S. Haldane

  Jesus, Science, Names

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• Now, if the cooperation of some thousands of millions of cells in our brain can produce our consciousness, a true singularity, the idea becomes vastly more plausible that the cooperation of humanity, or some sections of it, may determine what Comte calls a Great Being.

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  Cells, Ideas, Humanity

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• 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.

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  Success, Nature, Congratulations

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• 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.

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  Worry, Healthy, Soul

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• 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.

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  Numbers, Humanity, Atheism

  John B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1945). “Possible Worlds”, p.224, Transaction Publishers

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• And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

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  Education, Art, Poet

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• If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result of the chemical processes going on in my brain, they are determined by the laws of chemistry, not those of logic.

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  Science, Law, Brain

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• 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.

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  Wise, Art, Men

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• 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.

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  Stars, Study, Creation

  "What is Life? The Layman's View of Nature". Book by John B. S. Haldane, 1949.

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• You can analyze a glass of water and you're left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink.

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  Thinking, Glasses, Water

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• If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.

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  Cutting, Apples, Tree

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• You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat would probably be killed, though it can fall safely from the eleventh story of a building, a man is broken, a horse splashes.

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  Horse, Fall, Men

  "On Being the Right Size" by J. B. S. Haldane, 1926.

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• An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy.

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  Stars, Science, Would Be

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• To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

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  Eugenics, Size, Problem

  John B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1945). “Possible Worlds”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

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• We must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously. And it is just because even the least dogmatic of religions tends to associate itself with some kind of unalterable moral tradition, that there can be no truce between science and religion.

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  Moral, Kind, Tradition

  "Daedalus or Science and the Future". An address, February 4, 1923.

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• 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.

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  Cutting, Political, Branches

  John B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1945). “Possible Worlds”, p.23, Transaction Publishers

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• 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.

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  Responsibility, Ideas, Firsts

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• The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

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  Running, Desire, Concern

  John B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1945). “Possible Worlds”, p.26, Transaction Publishers

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

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  Inspirational, Thank You, Children

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• 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.

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  Atheism, Facts, Emotion

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• Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be; that no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

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  Safe, Littles, Belief

  "Daedalus of Science and the Future: A paper read to the Heretics". Address at Cambridge, February 04, 1923.

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• There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals.

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  Mammals, Planets, Species

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

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  Cousin, Brother, Eight

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• It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most beautiful viscera. After that, I would console myself for the plainness of my fellow bus-riders by dissecting them in my imagination.

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  Beautiful, Imagination, Firsts

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