“I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.” ThinkingLittlesLongEconomicResearchScientific Research Author:John B. S. Haldane
“Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be; that no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.” LittlesValuesBeliefSafeInstitutionsInfancy Author:John B. S. Haldane
“The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.” MenLittlesReasonPassionHe ManTerribleConservativeServantEmpiresCivilisationDoubters 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.” MenFirstsBelieveLittlesShowsSeemsEarthScienceNamesI BelievePoorMorningHeardFiguresSightExperimentsBitterImmortalCrucialWakingEngagingQuarrelsLifelongPresent DayMazesMicroscopesBiologistMost RomanticUltrasUnderpaid Author:John B. S. Haldane
“The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".” LittlesIdeasNamesForceIgnoranceExpressionIgnorantMislead Author:John B. S. Haldane
“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.” MayLittlesAbleHumanityBeliefNumbersAtheismSuspicionMartyrMartyred Book:Possible Worlds Source: Possible Worlds
