“Einstein - the greatest Jew since Jesus. I have no doubt that Einstein's name will still be remembered and revered when Lloyd George, Foch and William Hohenzollern share with Charlie Chaplin that ineluctable oblivion which awaits the uncreative mind.” MindStillsScienceJesusNamesDoubtShareJewRememberedNo DoubtOblivionCharlieCreative MindChaplin Author:John B. S. Haldane
“It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.” IdeasScienceNamesIgnoranceMereReactionsIgnorantNomenclatureOld Ideas 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
