"Until politics are a branch of science, we……" — John B. S. Haldane
"Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium."
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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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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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Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which…
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The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.
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You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you…
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let…
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The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence…
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For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be…
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I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of…
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In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the…
— Alfred Russel Wallace
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No law can give Congress a backbone if it refuses to stand off as the coequal branch the Constitution made…
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The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested…
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