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୪୮ କ ଧାଡ଼ି:
* "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."<ref>Haldane, J.B.S., ''Possible Worlds: And Other Essays'' [1927], Chatto and Windus: London, 1932, reprint, p.209.</ref>
* "[[Teleology]] is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public."<ref>Hull, D., Philosophy of Biological Science, Foundations of Philosophy Series, Prentice–Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1973.</ref><ref>Mayr, Ernst (1974) Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XIV, pages 91–117.</ref>
* "I had [gastritis] for about fifteen years until I read [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]] and other writers, who showed me what was wrong with our society and how to cure it...Since then I have needed no magnesia."<ref>''Time'' magazine, June 24, 1940 http://web.archive.org/web/20030930082139/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,,00.html</ref>
* "Theories have four stages of acceptance. 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."<ref>Haldane, J.B.S., [http://www.ias.ac.in/j_archive/jgenet/58/vol58contents.html Journal of Genetics Vol. 58], page 464 (1963)</ref>
* "Three hundred and ten species in all of India, representing two hundred and thirty-eight genera, sixty-two families, nineteen different orders. All of them on the Ark. And this is only India, and only the birds!"<ref>[[Gary Botting]], preface to ''The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses'', Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984 p. xvi</ref>
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