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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The future will be no primrose path. It will have its own problems. Some will be the secular problems of the past, giant flowers… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God from a… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
