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An ounce of algebra is worth a ton of verbal argument.
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I'd lay down my life for two brothers or eight cousins.
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Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics.
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Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.
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An "emergence" of life out of a Newtonian world would be a quite unintelligible miracle.
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No-one could study mathematics intensively for more than five hours a day and remain sane.
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A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
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Shelly and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge.
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There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
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If physics and biology one day meet, and one of the two is swallowed up, that one will not be biology.
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If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.
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The advance of scientific knowledge does not seem to make either our universe or our inner life in it any less mysterious.
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I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.
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The idea of protoplasm, which was really a name for our ignorance, [is] only a little less misleading than the expression "Vital force".
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I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.
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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.
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I wish I had the voice of Homer
To sing of rectal carcinoma,
Which kills a lot more chaps, in fact,
Than were bumped off when Troy was sacked.
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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.
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"The results so far obtained are consistent with the view that..." has taken the place of "Thus saith the Lord..." as an introduction to a new theory.
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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.
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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.
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The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
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An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy.
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Lady Randolph Churchill
J. B. S. Haldane
Born:
November 5, 1892
Died:
December 1, 1964
(aged 72)
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