Beetles Quote by John B. S. Haldane Download Open image “The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.” — John B. S. Haldane ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beetles Creator Fondness Ifs Inspirational Preference Special
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
“The great evolutionary biologist J B S Haldane (1892-1964), on being asked by a cleric what biology could say about the Creator, entertainingly replied,… — David Beerling Copy Share Image
“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
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
“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
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
“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 Copy Share Image
Beetle is the embodiment of everybody's resistance to authority, all the rules and regulations which you've got to follow. He deals with it in… — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony,… — E. O. Wilson 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
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Perdiccas threatened to put him to death unless he came to him, "That's nothing wonderful," Diogenes said, "for a beetle or a tarantula would… — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Why do we shave? It doesn't seem like a natural activity. There are no examples of shaving in nature. The only creature that comes… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I hear hundreds of years of life. I hear wind and rain and fire and beetles. I hear the seasons changing and birds and… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke. — John Lennon 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
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor. Its uniformity… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
“Love has made him surprise himself. He would never have believed it possible, but it's turned out that he is a man who can… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
