Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.
From John B. S. Haldane
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.
While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.
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.
There can be no truce between science and religion.
It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
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.
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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