J. B. S. Haldane Quotes

J. B. S. Haldane Quotes

J. B. S. Haldane Quotes

Consider the following quotes by J. B. S. Haldane:

"So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination."

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

"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on"

"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."

"I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things."

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