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About J.B.S. Haldane
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (5 November 1892 – 1 December 1964) was a British geneticist and evolutionary biologist.
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Additional quotes by 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 <i>The Truth About Death</i>, in: <i>Journal of Genetics</i> 1963, Vol. 58, p.464)
Man’s habits change more rapidly than his instincts.
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.