Quote Origin: The Creator Has an Inordinate Fondness for Beetles

Charles Darwin? J.B.S. Haldane? Stephen Gould? Apocryphal? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: I have been studying rain forests and came across the following passage in a New York Times article: Charles Darwin surmised that the Creator must be inordinately fond of beetles: the earth is home to some 30 million different species of them. The …