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John B. S. Haldane [1892-1964] British

Rank: 106
Scientist, Biological scientist

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS was a British-born Indian scientist known for his work in the study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and in mathematics, where he made innovative contributions to the fields of statistics and biostatistics.

Failure, Health, Religion, Science, Success, Teen

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There can be no truce between science and religion.	Religion, Science	101
It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.		102
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.	Failure, Success	103
Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.		104
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.		105
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.		106
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.	Teen	107
I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.	Health	108
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.		109
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.		110
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.		111
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.		112
I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.		113
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.		114
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.		115
I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.		116
The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.		117
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.		118

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