An ounce of algebra is worth of a ton of verbal argument.
John B. S. Haldane
Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.
life
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
art science
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.
man art science religion
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.
nature
The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
nations extremes business
I had it for about fifteen years until I read Lenin and other writers, who showed me what was wrong with our society and how to cure it.. Since then I have needed no magnesia.
wrongs society
The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deiciders.
man
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.
environment failure success
There can be no truce between science and religion.
science religion
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.
politics science
I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.
system
worth
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.
health
I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
doubt
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.
numbers belief
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