John B. S. Haldane Quotes

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

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• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Small
  • Problems
  • Down

• I'm a good Catholic boy.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Good
  • Boy
  • Catholic

• Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Looking

• It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Support

• 'Love Aaj Kal' is not really a road movie, but it does involve some travel.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movie
  • Road
  • Travel

• I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

  

  Ed Harris
  • People
  • Work
  • Thought

• The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • World
  • Great
  • Government

• As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Work
  • Try
  • Playground

• American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Up
  • Business
  • American

• I condemn any form of terrorism and especially the terrorism that would affect my country and me.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Country
  • Me
  • Terrorism

• You can know a person by the kind of desk he keeps. If the president of a company has a clean desk then it must be the executive vice president who is doing all the work.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Work
  • Know
  • Company

• I don't hit it as far as a lot of guys do, so I have to be in the right spot in the fairway to score, and that means driving it well. The two biggest keys for me are to make a good transition and to keep my hands ahead of the clubhead through impact. I want to feel as if my swing is two swings: one going back and another coming down.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Me
  • Driving

• As is the case for many people with multiple sclerosis, the effects of weakened limbs, spasticity and fatigue had cut my working life in half. Yet not a single GP, neurologist or nurse, and none of the MS websites, had mentioned the use of neuroenhancers for the treatment of neurological fatigue.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • People
  • Life
  • Single

• Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Think
  • Want
  • Lazy

• After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Action
  • September
  • Iran

• I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Together
  • Want
  • Just

• It took a long time to get that film made. I went in for it almost right after or like maybe six or seven months after I had my son and actually auditioned for the Regina King part and they just were like, 'No, you're just - you just don't really seem the part.'

  

  Nia Long
  • Time
  • Long
  • Son

• If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Life
  • Looks
  • Difficult

• Do you think that an eyeful of breast and buttocks will have me so besotted that I will forget all my principles? I'm a virgin, Mrs Farleigh. Not an innocent. I've never been an innocent.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Principles
  • Virgin
  • Not An Innocent

• It's always great to have a purpose of a meeting and an ending for it, but it's even more important to be present and have an engagement on the topic you're doing, to create an environment and energy around that meeting, so everybody goes from there, 'That's great; we can take it forward!'

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Great
  • Important
  • Energy

• You have kids growing up in some of the worst circumstances financially, living in some of the worst ghettos, and they succeed. They succeed because an adult figure, typically a mother, maybe a grandmother, nourishes the kid, supports the kid, protects the kid, encourages the kid to succeed. It's as if the environment never happened.

  

  James Heckman
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Mother

• 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
  • Success
  • Environment
  • Failure