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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.

John B. S. Haldane's Popular Quotes

This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.

- John B. S. Haldane

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.

- John B. S. Haldane

Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

- John B. S. Haldane

[Children] are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in later l…

- John B. S. Haldane

Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.

- John B. S. Haldane

Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God from a stud…

- John B. S. Haldane

An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.

- John B. S. Haldane

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

It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms …

- John B. S. Haldane