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)"
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"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)"
"مراحل القبول الأربع:
1. هذا هراء لا قيمة له.
2. هذه وجهة نظر مثيرة للاهتمام، وإن كانت شاذة.
3. هذا صحيح، ولكنه عديم الأهمية تمامًا.
4. لقد قلت ذلك دائمًا."
J.B.S. Haldane
"The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
"الكون ليس أغرب مما نتصور فحسب، بل أغرب مما يمكننا أن نتصور."
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."
"لو أمكن للمرء أن يستنتج طبيعة الخالق من دراسة الخلق، لبدا أن الله يكنّ ولعاً مفرطاً بالنجوم والخنافس."
J.B.S. Haldane
"Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, and being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch."
"تؤثر العلوم في الرجل والمرأة العاديين بطريقتين قائمتين بالفعل. فهو أو هي يستفيدان من تطبيقاتها بقيادة سيارة أو حافلة آلية بدلاً من مركبة تجرها الخيل، وبتلقي العلاج من طبيب أو جراح بدلاً من ساحرة."
J.B.S. Haldane
"An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy."
J.B.S. Haldane
"I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: i) this is worthless nonsense; ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; iv) I always said so."
J.B.S. Haldane
"I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred."
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 sai"
J.B.S. Haldane
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