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John B S Haldane
 
Date of birth: 05 November 1892
Date of death: 01 December 1964
Country Of Origin: England
Profession:

Geneticist

Evolutionary Biologist

Biography:
   John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (November 5, 1892 – December 1, 1964), who normally used "J.B.S." as a first name, was a British geneticist and evolutionary biologist. He was one of the founders (along with Ronald Fisher and Sewall Wright) of population genetics.

Haldane was born in Edinburgh, to physiologist John Scott Haldane and Louisa Kathleen Haldane, and descended from Scottish aristocrats (see Haldane family). His younger sister Naomi Mitchison became a writer. Halda .... (More...)
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" A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. "

John B S Haldane
" 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. "

John B S Haldane
" I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma. "

John B S Haldane
" 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
" In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. "

John B S Haldane
" It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine. "

John B S Haldane
" 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. "

John B S Haldane
" 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. "

John B S Haldane
" 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. "

John B S Haldane
" 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. "

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