<Li> He is famous for the (possibly apocryphal) response that he gave when some theologians asked him what could be inferred about the mind of the Creator from the works of His Creation: "An inordinate fondness for beetles ." This is in reference to there being over 400,000 known species of beetles in the world, and that this represents 40% of all known insect species (at the time of the statement, it was over half of all known insect species). </Li> <Li> He was often quoted for saying, "My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose ." </Li> <Li> "It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by - product of matter . For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true . They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically . And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms ." </Li> <Li> "Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public ." </Li>

The laws of nature by jbs haldane summary