{"author":"J.B.S. Haldane","author_id":"J.B.S.+Haldane","total_quotes":11,"quotes":[{"text":"Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming.","author":"J.B.S. Haldane","tags":["philosophy","science"],"id":11773,"author_id":"J.B.S.+Haldane"},{"text":"My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest if I were not also atheistic in the affairs of the world.","author":"J.B.S. Haldane","tags":["atheism","atheist","atheistic","biology","devils","evolution","experiments","intellectual-honesty","justified-assumptions","methodological-naturalism","science","scientist"],"id":25009,"author_id":"J.B.S.+Haldane"},{"text":"The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.","author":"J.B.S. Haldane","tags":["imagination","misattributed-arthur-c-clarke","physics","science","universe"],"id":55671,"author_id":"J.B.S.+Haldane"},{"text":"An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy.","author":"J.B.S. Haldane","tags":["astronomy","biology","cytology","evolution","futile","physics","science","spectroscopy","stellar-evolution","study"],"id":78168,"author_id":"J.B.S.+Haldane"},{"text":"Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.","author":"J.B.S. Haldane","tags":["danger","science"],"id":123396,"author_id":"J.B.S.+Haldane"},{"text":"I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: I) this is worthless nonsense; ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; iv) I always said so.","author":"J.B.S. Haldane","tags":["acceptance","science","self-contradiction","theories"],"id":167075,"author_id":"J.B.S.+Haldane"},{"text":"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.","author":"J.B.S. Haldane","tags":["inspirational-attitude","philosophical","science","wisdom"],"id":283670,"author_id":"J.B.S.+Haldane"},{"text":"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 sai.","author":"J.B.S. Haldane","tags":["acceptance","dispute","haldane","opportunism","science","self-contradiction","theories"],"id":285030,"author_id":"J.B.S.+Haldane"},{"text":"Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, and being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch.","author":"J.B.S. Haldane","tags":["benefits","benefits-of-science","cars","doctor","science","surgeon","technology"],"id":378159,"author_id":"J.B.S.+Haldane"},{"text":"If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.","author":"J.B.S. Haldane","tags":["creation"],"id":420330,"author_id":"J.B.S.+Haldane"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}