Author: John B. S. Haldane

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

- John B. S. Haldane

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.

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

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

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

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

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

- John B. S. Haldane

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

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

- John B. S. Haldane

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

- John B. S. Haldane

There can be no truce between science and religion.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

- John B. S. Haldane

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