And also a very old one; Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen. Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592. (Still, Small

And also a very old one; Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen. Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592. (Still, Small Gods is one of the best revisions of the topic!)