““Professor J. B. S. Haldane was one of the most celebrated scientists in Britain. A pioneering and broad-ranging thinker, he developed a mathematical theory of population genetics, predicted that hydrogen-producing windmills would replace fossil fuel, explained nuclear fission, and suffered a perforated eardrum while testing a homemade decompression chamber: “Although one is somewhat deaf,” he wrote, “one can blow tobacco smoke out of the ear in question, which is a social accomplishment.””
![“[Andrei Sakharov] won his Nobel in 1975 for demanding a halt to the testing of nuclear weapons. He, of course, had already tested his. His wife was a pediatrician! What sort of person could perfect a hydrogen bomb while married to a child-care specialist? What sort of physician would stay married…” quote by Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/04b/kurt-vonnegut-41_nuclear-weapons_andrei-sakharov-won-his-nobel-in-1975-fo_1998284.jpg)
![“Though his invention worked superbly [...] his theory was a crock of sewage from beginning to end.” quote by Vernor Vinge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/051/vernor-vinge-4357_innovation_though-his-invention-worked-superbly-his_1123922.jpg)
