Author: John B. S. Haldane

Quotes

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

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

There can be no truce between science and religion.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

- 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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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