John B. S. Haldane
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Biography
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-born scientist who later moved to India and acquired Indian citizenship. He worked in the fields of physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics.
"We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve."
"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
"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."
"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."
"There can be no truce between science and religion."
"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."
"There can be no truce between science and religion."
"And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art."
"A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult."