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“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.”
― J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds
― J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds
“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.”
― J.B.S. Haldane
― J.B.S. Haldane
“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)”
― J.B.S. Haldane
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)”
― J.B.S. Haldane
“Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”
― J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds
― J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds
“The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder”
― J.B.S. Haldane
― J.B.S. Haldane
“There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.”
― J.B.S. Haldane, Daedalus
― J.B.S. Haldane, Daedalus
“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.”
― J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds
― J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds
“It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product
of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the
motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs
are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them
sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be
composed of atoms.”
― J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds
― J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds
