87 Quotes by John B. S. Haldane

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

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

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.

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.