John B. S. Haldane Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Time, Believe, Math

• It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Supposing That, Mind, Brain

  "Possible worlds, and other essays". Book by J. B. S. Haldane, 1927.

• 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

  Numbers, Humanity, Atheism

  John B. S. Haldane, John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (1945). “Possible Worlds”, p.224, Transaction Publishers

• I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Giving Up, Rabbits, Fossils

• Science is as yet in its infancy, and we can foretell little of the future save that the thing that has not been is the thing that shall be; that no beliefs, no values, no institutions are safe.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Safe, Littles, Belief

  "Daedalus of Science and the Future: A paper read to the Heretics". Address at Cambridge, February 04, 1923.

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