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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I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.John B. S. Haldane
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
John B. S. Haldane
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.
John B. S. Haldane
There can be no truce between science and religion.
John B. S. Haldane
We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.
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It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.
John B. S. Haldane
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
Edgar Allan Poe
I never have anything to talk about.
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Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results.
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