If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.
John B. S. HaldaneTeleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.
John B. S. HaldaneScience 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.
John B. S. HaldaneIt wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most beautiful viscera. After that, I would console myself for the plainness of my fellow bus-riders by dissecting them in my imagination.
John B. S. Haldane