“I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.” IfsGivingBeliefEvolutionGiving UpFossilsRabbits Author:John B. S. Haldane
“Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal. We have now to ask whether God made the tapeworm. And it is questionable whether an affirmative answer fits in either with what we know about the process of evolution or what many of us believe about the moral perfection of God.” IfsKnowsWayBelieveMadeAsksProcessAnswersAnimalMoralDoubtEvolutionFitPerfectionTigersAdmirableAffirmativeQuestionableBlakeMoral Perfection Author:John B. S. Haldane
“An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy.” Would BeScienceStarsStudyEvolutionAccountsOrganismsIgnoredLiving OrganismsStellarSpectroscopy Author:John B. S. Haldane
“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.” DifferentWould BeScienceNaturalViewsEvolutionConvincedSelectionGeneticsNatural SelectionBiologist Author:John B. S. Haldane
