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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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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's…
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Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.
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You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and…
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Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of…
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It was one of those somber evenings when the sighing of the wind resembles the moans of a dying man; a storm…
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Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.
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She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from…
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The world around us is an increasingly hostile and sinful place. Occasionally that splashes onto us, and perhaps, in the case of…
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As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She…
— Wilferd Peterson
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astonishing splashes of colour
— James M. Barrie
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There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Work to make a bunch of small splashes, and let the ripples spread naturally. If you want to change a persons mind…
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