"The Creator, if He exists, has a special……" — John B. S. Haldane
"The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles."
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53 Quotes by John B. S. Haldane
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The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any…
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The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as…
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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…
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If materialism is true, it seems to me that we cannot know that it is true. If my opinions are…
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Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature…
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Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a…
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I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the…
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Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather…
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The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the…
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I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions.…
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[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to…
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Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature…
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The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The…
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God has an inordinate fondness for beetles.
— John B. S. Haldane
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If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that…
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I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and…
— William F. Longgood
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I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons…
— Garth Stein
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Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a…
— Greg Kramer
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There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps,…
— William Booth
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A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds…
— George Elliott Clarke
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Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been;…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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In the sago palms, you'll often find sago beetles which are about the size of your little finger. The Karowai…
— Tim Cahill
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