John Burdon Sanderson Haldane Quotes

I am trying to write stuff that is different. I am a big science fan. I read a lot of science, and 'Wonderland' has a lot of science in it. I don't know. They are hard to describe... We are living in a wonderland age of science.

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination - my imagination, anyway.

Creativity is essential to particle physics, cosmology, and to mathematics, and to other fields of science, just as it is to its more widely acknowledged beneficiaries - the arts and humanities.

Knowledge comes from the past, so it's safe. It is also out of date. It's the opposite of originality... Experience is the opposite of being creative.

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

We especially need imagination in science.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

I feel like science and art are cousins.

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.

I work with a lot of scientists, and one of the frustrating things they find is that all this fascinating stuff is being done which doesn't find its way into science fiction. They say look at the science fact pages - they're so much more imaginative than science fiction.

Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.

The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civilization today, it's the wealth that comes from science.

We will always have more to discover, more to invent, more to understand and that's much closer to art and literature than any science.

Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.