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John B. S. Haldane has 53 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.
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The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is…
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It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.
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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…
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If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are the result…
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Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God…
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Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or…
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I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day.…
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Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts…
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The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital…
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I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't…
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[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of…
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of…
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In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to…
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In physiology, as in all other sciences, no discovery is useless, no curiosity misplaced or too ambitious, and we may be certain…
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My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its…
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence…
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It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of…
— Linus Pauling
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Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of…
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Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The great experimental principle, then, is doubt, that philosophic doubt which leaves to the mind its freedom and initiative, and from which…
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Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to…
— Lionel Tiger
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What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.
— Joseph Glanvill
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Anatomy is to physiology as geography is to history; it describes the theatre of events.
— Unknown Author
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