"You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat would probably be killed, though it can fall safely from the eleventh story of a building; a man is killed, a horse splashes."
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"On Being the Right Size", p. 19
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J. B. S. Haldane
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (5 November 1892 β 1 December 1964) was a British geneticist and evolutionary biologist.
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