Happy birthday J.B.S. Haldane

From Quotes of the Day:

John Burdon Sanderson Haldane was born at Edinburgh, Scotland on this day in 1892. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, but possibly most important is the fact that he assisted his scientist father in the lab from age eight. His primary work was in genetics, being the first to provide a mathematical basis for Mendelian genetics and for Darwin's evolution. He taught at Oxford, Cambridge, and the University of London. In 1957 he became disgusted with policies of the British government and moved to India where he spent the rest of his life.

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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.

This is my prediction for the future - whatever hasn't happened will happen and no one will be safe from it.

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.

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.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

If human beings could be propagated by cutting, like apple trees, aristocracy would be biologically sound.
- All from J. B. S. Haldane, 1892 - 1964