So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science.

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.

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.

So far from being an isolated phenomenon the late war is only an example of the disruptive result that we may constantly expect from the progress of science.

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."

[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 life, and makes it very difficult for them to accept the methods of thought which are successful in science.

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.