“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
“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
“I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.” IfsGivingBeliefEvolutionGiving UpFossilsRabbits Author:John B. S. Haldane
“If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.” IfsHumansWould BeSoundHuman BeingsCuttingTreeApplesAristocracyApple Trees 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
“So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science.” MayWarResultsProgressExampleLatePhenomenonIsolatedDisruptive 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
“The future will be no primrose path. It will have its own problems. Some will be the secular problems of the past, giant flowers of evil blossoming at last to their own destruction. Others will be wholly new.” ProblemLastsPastEvilPathFlowerDestructionGiantsSecularBlossoming Author:John B. S. Haldane
“There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals.” PlanetsSpeciesMammalsBeetles Author:John B. S. Haldane