Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a hors… - J.B.S. Haldane

No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

At Oxford, the young Haldane was frequently asked whether he was related to the "famous John Scott Haldane", his father, and he would answer "That depends on whether you consider identity to be a relationship."

is weight for weight the most efficient known method of storing energy, as it gives about three times as much heat per pound as petrol. ...[I]t is very light, and bulk for bulk has only one third of the efficiency of petrol. This will not, however, detract from its use in aeroplanes, where weight is more important than bulk.