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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. — John B. S. Haldane

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

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

Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail. — John 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

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

I do not believe in the commercial possibility of induced radioactivity. — 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

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

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

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

There can be no truce between science and religion. — 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

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

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument. — John B. S. Haldane