John B. S. Haldane Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.”

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

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

“There can be no truce between science and religion.”

“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.”

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

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