Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.
John B. S. Haldane
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.
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.
John B. S. Haldane
The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.
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.