An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
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"God has an inordinate fondness for beetles." - J. B. S. Haldane, British geneticist and evolutionary biologist. Stephen Jay Gould elaborates on this quote "Haldane was making a theological point: God is most likely to take trouble over reproducing his own image, and his 400,000 attempts at the perfect beetle contrast with his slipshod creation of man. When we meet the Almighty face to face he will resemble a beetle"