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"There can be no truce between science and religion."
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"A satirist that criticizes religion is seen as a satanist."
"Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations."
"Only the Prince of Peace gives peace."
"There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't."
"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."
"Religion is a cultural relic inherited from ancient civilizations that doctrinal influence persists globally in modern times. Religious people rely upon their notional belief in the primal innocence of human beings in order to support the abstract supposition of inherently benevolent God guiding human souls."
"Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better."
"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."
"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."
"My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
"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."
"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
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