J.B.S. Haldane’s Four Stages of Acceptance for Scientific Ideas
- 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.
From J.B.S. Haldane, Journal of Genetics (1963) 58: 464.
