Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by J. B. S. Haldane (British Biologist)

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, FRS (1892–1964) was a British-born Indian scientist known for his work in the study of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and in mathematics, where he made innovative contributions to the fields of statistics and biostatistics. He was the son of the equally famous John Scott Haldane and a professed socialist, Marxist, atheist, and humanist whose political dissent led him to leave England in 1956 and live in India, becoming a naturalised Indian citizen in 1961.

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The ideal society would enable every man and woman to develop along their individual lines, and not attempt to force all into one mould, however admirable.
J. B. S. Haldane
Topics: Society

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.
J. B. S. Haldane
Topics: Words

During the Middle Ages Europe was far too much influenced by celibate men. Today much too big a part in public life is played by celibate women, and too little by mothers. I find no new ideas more genuinely disgusting than that held by many educated authorities that a woman ceases to be suitable as a teacher when she becomes a mother.
J. B. S. Haldane
Topics: Teaching

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.
J. B. S. Haldane
Topics: Success & Failure, Success, Nature

The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
J. B. S. Haldane
Topics: Theory, Assumptions

A book glorifying war may be quite as anti-social, and to my mind quite as obscene, as one glorifying illicit love, but it is never suppressed, and seldom publicly denounced.
J. B. S. Haldane
Topics: War

Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy.
J. B. S. Haldane
Topics: Universe, The Universe

Marriage has a biological basis, and would be far more often a success if its biology were generally understood and the knowledge acted upon.
J. B. S. Haldane
Topics: Marriage

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.
J. B. S. Haldane
Topics: Correction, Reform

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.
J. B. S. Haldane
Topics: Humanity

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don’t know why I do things.
J. B. S. Haldane

A single mind can acquire a fair knowledge of the whole field of science, and find plenty of time to spare for ordinary human affairs. Not many people take the trouble to do so. But without a knowledge of science one cannot understand current events. That is why our modem literature and art are mostly so unreal.
J. B. S. Haldane
Topics: Science

There is still an immense amount to be learned about health, but if what is at present known to a few were part of the general knowledge, the average expectation of life could probably be increased by about ten years.
J. B. S. Haldane
Topics: Health

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
J. B. S. Haldane
Topics: Children

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.
J. B. S. Haldane
Topics: Health

I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
J. B. S. Haldane
Topics: Cancer

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