Fondness Quote by John B. S. Haldane Download Open image “God has an inordinate fondness for beetles.” — John B. S. Haldane ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fondness Funny Inspirational Love
“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 Copy Share Image
The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“My Manager forced me to put my beetle in my own ear, a clear waste and an act that gave me nightmares: of a… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue. — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man — the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Think of yourselves as dung beetles. Yes! Dung beetles lug their balls of dung around… We all have our own ball of dung to… — Ingrid Chabbert Copy Share Image
My final word, before I'm done, Is "Cancer can be rather fun"- Provided one confronts the tumour with a sufficient sense of humour. I… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
A discussion between Haldane and a friend began to take a predictable turn. The friend said with a sigh, 'It's no use going on.… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Capitalism, though it may not always give the scientific worker a living wage, will always protect him, as being one of the geese which… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than the classics. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The key to valuing something is to lose it and then realize how rare it was—after which you pray like mad to regain what… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
No adversity is in kind or degree peculiar to us; but if we survey the conditions of other men (of our brethren everywhere, of… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
I don't have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
'They fell in love.' Such a rare and special event cannot be done justice by one statement; it involves so much more than that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself - which may… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.' — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
