John B. S. Haldane
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.