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John B. S. Haldane was an outstanding biologist known for his contributions to genetics, evolutionary theory, and biochemistry. His research had a profound impact on the development of modern biology.

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“I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred.”

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Author:John B. S. Haldane

“I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight he seems to be just a poor little scrubby underpaid man, groping blindly amid the mazes of the ultra-microscopic, engaging in bitter and lifelong quarrels over the nephridia of flatworms, waking perhaps one morning to find that someone whose name he has never heard has demolished by a few crucial experiments the work which he had hoped would render him immortal.”

“Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.”

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Author:John B. S. Haldane

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

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Book:Possible Worlds

Source: Possible Worlds

About the Author

Born: November 5, 1892
Died: December 1, 1964
Known for: Biologist
Quotes: 67

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