Path Quotes by John B. S. Haldane

My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of humour. I…

— 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 discussion between Haldane and a friend began to take a predictable turn. The friend said with a sigh, 'It's no use going on.…

— John B. S. Haldane

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

— John B. S. Haldane

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.

— John B. S. Haldane

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

— John B. S. Haldane

Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which…

— 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

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

— John B. S. Haldane

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

— John B. S. Haldane

There can be no truce between science and religion.

— John B. S. Haldane

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

— John B. S. Haldane