If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.
John B. S. HaldaneThis is my prediction for the future: Whatever hasn't happened will happen, and no one will be safe from it.
John B. S. HaldaneWe must learn not to take traditional morals too seriously. And it is just because even the least dogmatic of religions tends to associate itself with some kind of unalterable moral tradition, that there can be no truce between science and religion.
John B. S. HaldaneReligion is still parasitic in the interstices of our knowledge which have not yet been filled. Like bed-bugs in the cracks of walls and furniture, miracles lurk in the lacunae of science. The scientist plasters up these cracks in our knowledge; the more militant Rationalist swats the bugs in the open. Both have their proper sphere and they should realize that they are allies.
John B. S. Haldane