Biology Quote by David Beerling

“Eighty-five percent of recorded species live in the terrestrial realm, and the majority of these, some 850,000, are arthropods (that is, insects, spiders, and…

— Richard E. Leakey

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

— John B. S. Haldane

Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God from a…

— John B. S. Haldane

God has an inordinate fondness for beetles.

— John B. S. Haldane

“On second thought, though, maybe that was what being made in the Divine Image was all about. Eighty percent of all creatures are insects…

— Robert Capon

The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles on the other, for the simple…

— John B. S. Haldane

“Would the Judeo-Christian-Islamic God have sent his only-begotten son to save those beetles and their household mites, Jared?” “No.” “But the god of this…

— Daniel Quinn

“Lemons. He liked lemons. They made you make funny faces when you bit them, and a very, very long way in the future there…

— Nick Harkaway

“It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various ways.”

— J.M. Coetzee

“Philosophers often appear to intend to want to get answers about humans that we can't get about insects, and that's too much, yaknow?”

— Noam Chomsky

“He was looking me over in that weird, intense way he had, like I was a rare species of beetle and he was a…

— Eli Easton

A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man — the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand…

— Anonymous