Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.
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
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
[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
[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…
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
This is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.
An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument. - John B. S. Haldane
An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.
Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail. - John B. S. Haldane
Money can buy a fine dog but it is kindness that makes him wag his tail.
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
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…
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
Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.
Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches. - John B. S. Haldane
Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.
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
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 …
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