Top 5 J.B.S. Haldane Quotes

#1. The four stages of acceptance:
1. This is worthless nonsense.
2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view.
3. This is true, but quite unimportant.
4. I always said so."

(Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)

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#2. We can fortell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be.

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#3. It took man 250,000 years to transcend the hunting pack. It will not take him so long to transcend the nation.

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#4. Man's habits change more rapidly than his instincts.

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#5. To light a lamp as a source of light is about as wasteful of energy as to burn down ones house to roast one's pork.

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