John Burdon Sanderson Haldane Quotes
Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal. We have now to ask whether God made the tapeworm. And it is questionable whether an affirmative answer fits in either with what we know about the process of evolution or what many of us believe about the moral perfection of God.
Citations
Haldane, J. B. S. Possible Worlds and Other Papers. Chatto & Windus, 1927, p. 33.
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John Burdon Sanderson Haldane FRS, nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-Indian scientist known for his works in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biology, he was one of the founders of neo-Darwinism.