John B. S. Haldane

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#concern #desire #every #every nation #extreme

There can be no truce between science and religion. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#religion #science #truce

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#fire #flying #god #great #hailed

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#biologist #largely #problem #size #socialism

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#experiments #millennium #political #politics #rather

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#due #easier #environment #failure #far

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#brothers #cousins #down #eight #i