Sentences with phrase «inordinate fondness»

J.B.S.Haldane is said to have remarked that one thing we know about the supreme being is that if he exists he has «an inordinate fondness for beetles,» there being more than 350,000 species of them (beetles, that is), with the count still rising.

As Rauch points out, despite his inordinate fondness for the unilateral exercise of executive powers, President Bush has been unconscionably timid in exercising one of the few executive powers that is truly unilateral — the pardon power.

And for another, there are almost as many style as there are species of beetles — which goes to show, I suppose, that God has «an inordinate fondness» for tunes too.

On being asked what one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation, Haldane is said to have answered, «An inordinate fondness for beetles.

When talking about whether theology has anything to learn from science, the British biologist J. B. S. Haldane used to quip that God must have «an inordinate fondness for beetles.»