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We can fortell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be.
— J.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.
— John B. S. Haldane
Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.
— John B. S. Haldane
Man's habits change more rapidly than his instincts.
— J.B.S. Haldane
The aeroplane will never fly.
— Richard Haldane, 1st Viscount Haldane
As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.
— Richard Dawkins
The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder
— John B. S. Haldane
The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.
— John B. S. Haldane
Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.
— John B. S. Haldane
Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.
— John B. S. Haldane
The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.
— John B. S. Haldane
I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.
— John B. S. Haldane
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
It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.
— John B. S. Haldane
It took man 250,000 years to transcend the hunting pack. It will not take him so long to transcend the nation.
— J.B.S. Haldane
You can analyze a glass of water and you're left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink.
— John B. S. Haldane
There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals.
— 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.
— John B. S. Haldane
Reality is the cage of those who lack imagination.
— John B. S. Haldane
I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
— John B. S. Haldane
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.
— John B. S. Haldane
I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things.
— John B. S. Haldane
If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.
— John B. S. Haldane
An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.
— John B. S. Haldane
A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.
— John B. S. Haldane
To light a lamp as a source of light is about as wasteful of energy as to burn down ones house to roast one's pork.
— J.B.S. Haldane
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
It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.
— John B. S. Haldane
This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.
— John B. S. Haldane
There can be no truce between science and religion.
— John B. S. Haldane
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 extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
— John B. S. Haldane
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.
— John B. S. Haldane
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
— John B. S. Haldane
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
— John B. S. Haldane
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
— John B. S. Haldane
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 B. S. Haldane
I do not believe in the commercial possibility of induced radioactivity.
— John B. S. Haldane
The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".
— John B. S. Haldane
Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.
— John B. S. Haldane