“Every Christian church has tried to impose a code of morals of some kind for which it has claimed divine sanction. As these codes have always been opposed to those of the gospels a loophole has been left for moral progress such as hardly exists in other religions.” KindHas BeensChristianLeftChurchMoralProgressDivineCodeSanctionsChristian ChurchLoopholes Author:John B. S. Haldane
“We must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously. And it is just because even the least dogmatic of religions tends to associate itself with some kind of unalterable moral tradition, that there can be no truce between science and religion.” KindMoralTraditionTraditionalAssociatesScience And ReligionDogmaticTruce Author:John B. S. Haldane
“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.” WellsKindFactsEmotionAtheismSymbolsDescriptionPreciseAdapted Author:John B. S. Haldane
“[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in later life, and makes it very difficult for them to accept the methods of thought which are successful in science.” KindChildrenReligionDifficultAcceptingVirtueSuccessfulTaughtEvidenceMethodStatementsAdequatePreyQuacks Author:John B. S. Haldane
“Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be distributed at random through wild populations, and to follow the laws of chance in their distribution to offspring. In other words, they are an agency producing variation of the kind which Darwin postulated as the raw material on which selection acts.” KindShowsRealityLawNaturalChanceKnownMaterialsPopulationAgencyGenesSelectionDistributionVariationNatural SelectionOffspringRaw Materials Author:John B. S. Haldane
