"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."
-John B. S. Haldane
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"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.“
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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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"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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"A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult."
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"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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"There can be no truce between science and religion."
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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
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