John B. S. Haldane Quotes
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A book glorifying war may be quite as anti-social, and to my mind quite as obscene, as one glorifying illicit love, but it is never suppressed, and seldom publicly denounced.
[War]
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A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
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A single mind can acquire a fair knowledge of the whole field of science, and find plenty of time to spare for ordinary human affairs. Not many people take the trouble to do so. But without a knowledge of science one cannot understand current events. That is why our modem literature and art are mostly so unreal.
[Science]
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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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During the Middle Ages Europe was far too much influenced by celibate men. Today much too big a part in public life is played by celibate women, and too little by mothers. I find no new ideas more genuinely disgusting than that held by many educated authorities that a woman ceases to be suitable as a teacher when she becomes a mother.
[Teaching]
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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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I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.
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I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
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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.
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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.
[Adapted]
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It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.
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Marriage has a biological basis, and would be far more often a success if its biology were generally understood and the knowledge acted upon.
[Marriage]
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My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
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The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
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The ideal society would enable every man and woman to develop along their individual lines, and not attempt to force all into one mould, however admirable.
[Society]
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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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There can be no truce between science and religion.
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There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
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There is still an immense amount to be learned about health, but if what is at present known to a few were part of the general knowledge, the average expectation of life could probably be increased by about ten years.
[Health]
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To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.
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