“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, tho

“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 broken, a horse splashes.” J.B.S. Haldane, in “On Being the Right Size”, 1926, a book (PDF at https://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3221/spring10/HaldaneRightSize.pdf https://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy3221/spring10/HaldaneRig...) about scaling laws in biology (https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1809090 https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.1809090)