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.
From John B. S. Haldane
I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.
The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
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