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.

There can be no truce between science and religion.

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred.

It was a reaction from the old idea of "protoplasm", a name which was a mere repository of ignorance.

Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God from a study of his works?" Haldane replied: "An inordinate fondness for beetles."

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".