Monday, February 26, 2018

God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles

“Oh, yeah, I tell you something
I think you'll understand
When I say that something's
I wanna hold your hand
 
A version of this subject foto been seen around the country. The display is in the bowels of Cleveland's Natural History Museum.

God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.—J.B.S. Haldane

“The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other, for the simple reason that there are nearly 300,000 species of beetle known, and perhaps more, as compared with somewhat less than 9,000 species of birds and a little over 10,000 species of mammals. Beetles are actually more numerous than the species of any other insect order. That kind of thing is characteristic of nature.” —J.B.S. Haldane. What is life?. 1947.

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