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“I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.” quote by John B. S. Haldane — Download Open image

“I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.”

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

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

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

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

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There can be no truce between science and religion.

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

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